Re: [lojban-beginners] "Should" and "would"

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  I disagree that da'i is not needed below.  Without it, the sentence reads "Since I am I chicken, there is no road crossing."

          --gejyspa (12 days behind in email. I had brought it down to 9, but have been busy at work.)

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, selpa'i <m3o@plasmatix.com> wrote:

Sometimes, the "would" appears together with an if-clause, in which case a {da'i} isn't always needed:

mi va'o lo nu [da'i] mi jipci cu na kuckla lo dargu
If I was a chicken, I wouldn't cross the road.

Here the {da'i} is not strictly needed, because the event tagged by va'o is not claimed by the speaker. The {da'i} can be used to add emphasis on the non-factualness of the sentence, however.

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