Re: [lojban-beginners] {goi}, {xu}, {pei}

[selpa'i <m3o@plasmatix.com>]

On 24.07.2013 12:25, iesk wrote:
> I just said on the main list (or intended to say, typos aside):
>
> {.i mi na tavla fi la remoi nunji'e goi xu la'o gy. Second Life .gy}
>
> The {xu} is wrong there, right?

I would say that a sentence containing {xu} is a question, and you 
intended the main clause to be an assertion, so {xu} isn't what you 
want.

> I mean, {goi} is … performative? … so
> I should not ask about truth values (which is what {xu} is for?) but
> about … appropriateness?

Yes, {goi} is performative. I probably wouldn't use {goi} in this 
sentence at all. I would use {no'u} or {noi}, or {to ... toi}.

> Would {pei} have been better?

It clashes a little bit with the {goi}; "hereby the same as X, how do 
you feel about that?". It might be better than {xu}, although it's not 
entirely clear if {pei} causes irrealis or not. I could see it going 
either way.

You could say:

     (1) la re moi nunji'e (to xu du la'o gy. Second Life .gy toi)

or if you want to use your {pei} idea, provided that it doesn't affect 
the mood:

     (2) la re moi nunji'e ku no'u pei la'o gy. Second Life .gy

(note that you forgot a {ku})

I would most likely go with (1), personally. The {pei} feels a bit 
weird to me.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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