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[lojban-beginners] Re: "don't you have somewhere to be?"

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From: Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:43:05 +0300
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We should be able to preserve the tone and sarcasm through rhetorical questions

paunai xu do bilga lenu cliva

paunai xu do bilga lenu klama le datselzva

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:

Though i'm not a native English speaker, it seems to me that "don't
you have somewhere to be?" is not a real question but an indirect
suggestion. So i agree with Selckiku's translation: something without
"xu".

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- [lojban-beginners] Re: "don't you have somewhere to be?"
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- [lojban-beginners] "don't you have somewhere to be?"
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- [lojban-beginners] Re: "don't you have somewhere to be?"
  - From: Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>
- [lojban-beginners] Re: "don't you have somewhere to be?"
  - From: tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>

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