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

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

that makes sense.

thanks for all your input.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com> wrote:

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".