Re: [lojban-beginners] Should/Ought

[Annie <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net>]

how can a lujvo be a selbri?

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On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:44 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:09 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:

ju'o so'i roi retsku .i ku'i ji'a sai mi krefu retsku di'e .i fanva zo'oi should fu ma to mu'i zoi gy. I should eat .gy. joi zoi gy. I should go to the gym .gy. to mabla me zo zoi javni toi toi

"I'm sure it's been asked many times before; even so, I ask it again: How does one translate "should" (e.g. "I should eat", "I should go to the gym" (Damned "zoi" rules))?

With gismu:

I'm a little unsure about the proper Lojban word for what I mean here (selbri?), but it seems to me that using "gismu" is overly specific. Similar for "attitudinal" when "cmavo" would apply. Those two categories cover all the bases (since names can't do the job). 

I said gismu because that's what I used. IT's possible that other forms of selbri (eg. tanru, lujvo, etc.) would also work, but the example I used was a gismu. The same reasoning applies to the other example.

stevo

mi bilga lonu citka


With attitudinal (although I wouldn't be surprised if there's disagreement on this one):

mi citka.ei
 

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