oooo, just thought of another interesting usage.A: ti'epei la djim prami la pamB: ti'enai li'a go'iA: Did you hear, jim loves pamB: No, I didn't hear, it knew because it was obvious
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:Also, don't forget about our good friend {pei}. Questions that aren't really questions can be expressed like that. e.g. "mi sruma lo du'u broda kei .iepei". This way you are basically tagging the "lo nu broda kei" with a question of "do you agree with it" in stead of a plain ol' boolean/fill-in-the-blank question word. This is useful for other things as well e.g. "mi'o citka lo plise .uiro'opei". You're making a statement while simultaniously asking how the listener feels about it.
On Oct 12, 2011 3:52 PM, "Pierre Abbat" <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:41:52 Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> I just found myself, in English, ending a sentence that started with "I
> assume" with a question mark.
>
> I was asking a question, but I had no question words in the sentence.
>
> {xu mi sruma ko'a} would translate as "Do I assume {ko'a}?", which is not
> what I meant.
>
> Is {pau mi sruma ko'a} grammatical (I expect so)?
> Is it a horrible misuse of {pau} (I hope not)?
> Would you understand it, and would it offend your lojbanic sensibilities?
It is grammatical, and "pau" can be used without a question word, but I'd have
to see the sentence in context to judge whether it's right.
Pierre
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