[lojban-beginners] Re: let us

[Squark Rabinovich <top.squark@gmail.com>]

The fact it is so in certain natural languages doesn't mean we should do it this way in lojban !

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:48 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:

2009/9/8 komfo,amonan <komfoamonan@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I always thought "let us" (or, more commonly, "let's") was a way to
>> say first-person plural imperative of verbs in English. For example,
>> "let's go" - first-person plural imperative of the verb "to go".
>
> I think that's just because that's how it's explained in the grammars of
> (some) Indo-European languages. "Let's go", "Allons", "Vámonos" -- they're
> all referred to as imperatives when you learn these languages' grammars.

In Japanese, for instance, "Let's go" is usually translated as "iko",
based on the verb "iku" (go), which then may be translated into Lojban
as "klama .e'u.i'i". Modern Japanese has no first-person plural
imperative, to the best of my knowledge. (The second-person
singular/plural imperative of "iku" is "ike".)

mu'o mi'e tijlan