[lojban-beginners] Re: "don't do that"

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Robin Lee
Powell<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:05:38PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
>> 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. ÂGiven that, one that I came up with that I couldn't
>> figure out a good lojban equivalent of is "don't do that".
>
> ko na gasnu
>
> Or, better: .e'a nai
>
> -Robin
>

  Yes, "e'anai" is good.  Of course, if you want to be more formal
(and therefore more menacing) "ko ba tarti ti ba'e no da"
(I firmly believe you can use ti/ta/tu to "point" to currently
occurring actions or states.  If you don't feel that way, you can use
"lo cabna")
                         --gejyspa