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

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

oh, so then you can point at abstractors?  That is incredibly useful.  I was worried that ti/ta/tu were limited to pointing at literal, physical objects since lojban is often saying things like "how can you know a person.  You can know something unspecified about a person, but how do you know the person themselves" etc...

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

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.  Given 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