Re: [lojban-beginners] to be

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:54:38AM -0700, jongausib wrote:
> How do you say:
> 
> "To be or not to be, that is the question"
> 
> in lojban.

Given what the sentence actually *means*, in context, {pau nai xu
sevzi catra}, or similar.  If it's important to you to maintain the
structure (which Lojban rather specifically tries to not let you do,
by the way, since it has no copula), consider lifri or jmive.

-Robin

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