Re: [lojban-beginners] to be

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:51 PM, jongausib <so.cool.ogi@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you say:
>
> "To be or not to be, that is the question"
>
> in lojban.
>
> I haven't found any gismu to describe the act of just being (like in a
> taoistic sense). To exist is not quite the same, since it says more
> about the fact that you exist and not the experience of just existing/
> being.

Perhaps something with {lifri}?  {lifri lo su'u zasti} or {lifri lo su'u jmive}

But I'm not sure that's what Hamlet meant.  He was deciding whether to
kill himself.  I feel like the reason he doesn't say "to die or to
live" is because he's not ready to say it.  But he does say it a few
lines later.  But then he immediately softens it by saying "to sleep".
 But then he imagines "what dreams may come"-- hell.

If I were translating that solliloquy I would think less about how to
translate those particular words, and more about what words a
Lojbanist would use to express those feelings.  I'd want to reread the
play before actually trying to translate it, but the first thing that
comes to my mind is {xu ranji} = "Does it continue/persist?"

mi'e la stela selckiku
mu'o

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