[lojban-beginners] Re: letter-spacing and uppercase

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

2009/6/11 Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>:
> Way off topic but, in practical use what are the differences between
> "ta'onai" and "ji'a"?
>
> In english I might say "the dog is white.  Also, the dog bites".  I could
> see using "ta'onai" or "ji'a" to translate this, which would be more
> appropriate?
>
> - Luke Bergen

.i ta'o [ incidental utterance ] .i ta'onai [ main utterance ]

.i [ main utterance ] .i ji'a [ incidental or possibly main utterance ]

Your English example seems to be the case of "ji'a".

mu'o mi'e tijlan