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Re: [lojban-beginners] "Should" and "would"
I should add that Lojban follows one interesting principle of language planning called "facultative precision".
In short,
1. if you remove words from a Lojbanic utterance you slowly lose precision.
2. And vice versa, of course (by adding more words you prove that Lojban is the most precise language in the world, although, this second aspect of Lojban is unfortunately known much more than the 1st aspect).
So e.g. when you remove {da'i} the sentence becomes more vague but it does not get the opposite or another meaning.
The principle is described in the following
article.
No wonder they mention Loglan (however, they criticize it based on their subjective biased feelings).
On Friday, November 9, 2012 10:41:21 PM UTC+4, Michael Turniansky wrote:
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
<m...@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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