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Re: [lojban-beginners] Conditionals (again)



mu'i da'i lo nu do na djica lo nu xrani ko'a lo ka cinmo   cu bilga fa do lo nu toltce ticysku

  da'i still makes hypotheticdals.. what's hypothetical here?  Your motive.
       --gejyspa



On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbotat@gmail.com> wrote:
If you don't want to hurt her feelings you're going to have to bend the truth a little.

Besides the difficult of translating "bend the truth" (I'm probably going to use {krori'a pe'a}), I have no idea how to set up the conditional.  It's not a straight-up logical connective, and {va'o} doesn't quite seem to cut it for me.

.e'o sidju

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mu'o mi'e .arpis.

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