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Re: [lojban-beginners] [fanva] "Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, doesn't it?"



How about:
L1 { lo djacu ku dunja lo jacke'o be li no vau ja'a xu }

In my human language studies, i've found lots of langauges tend to do something like this:

G1 Are you going? => I don't know if you're going, tell me if it's true.
G2 Aren't you going => I thought you were going, confirm this is true.

But part of me thinks its malremnybangu to assume that { xu na } should carry a connotation of prior bias to one truth value or another. That is, there should be no real difference when I ask the following:

L2 { xu do klama } = Are you going? Yes/No
L3 { xu do na klama } = Are you going? No/Yes (or: Are you not going? Yes/No)

After all, imagining the proper intonation, both of the following English sentences could have a strong bias (they imply that the listener is confirming, not informing):

G3 "You are going, aren't you?" or "You are going, right?"
G4 "You aren't going, are you?" or "You're not going, right?"

...so how should I ask sentences G3 and G4 above in Lojban? mi djica lo nu djuno .au

Is it { ja'a }? Is it an other-centric UI ? zo'o
co'o mi'e korbi

2010/11/28 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>>
>> How about ".i je'u xu"?
>
> "je'u pei".
>
> Roughly (or even strictly) "xu" = "je'u pei".
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
>
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