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[lojban-beginners] "don't do that"
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] "don't do that"
- From: Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:05:38 -0400
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so, last night chatting in the irc channel got me thinking about common phrases that a lojbanic parent might say often enough to their child. Given that, one that I came up with that I couldn't figure out a good lojban equivalent of is "don't do that".
In lojban it seems like this might be something like {ko na cu tu'a ta} but I'm not sure you can do things like that with tu'a. Basically I want something that means {you imperitive, do not now or in the future do the event <that>}. With {tu'a} we can say {meh, the abstraction that you know I mean when I say ____} but how would you (or can you) do that with pointing words like {ti}, {ta}, {tu}? And if not, how would you say what I am trying to say? Given that the child may have already ceased doing what (s)he has been doing or may still be doing it.
maybe another way might be {ko na co'e zukte}?