[lojban-beginners] Re: as though

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Luke Bergen<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> in what way Pierre? Just the in-directness/mental juggling of cmavo being
> done?
>
> It seems like such a rudimentary concept. I was kind of surprised that I
> didn't get a half-canned response from one of the veteran jbopre. Has this
> question never come up before?

My personal preference in those situations has been "ko bajra sepa'a
lo selje'i lo tirxu" -- "run, like one being followed by a tiger",
although it seems that xorxes generally prefers tai in those
situations.  Now, of course, I genericized the person being chased,
not specifically as YOU would, so if you wanted to me more literal,
perhaps, "ko bajra teta'i da'i lo nu lo tirxu cu jersi do" (notice
this isn't the same as Pierre's, as I'm using teta'i, not tetai)
--"Run, with a theoretic condition of the method that a tiger is
chasing you")

                   --gejyspa