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

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Luke Bergen<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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".

  I'm even more blunt: e'uro'a ko cliva  ;-)

             --gejyspa