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Re: [lojban-beginners] Conditionals (again)



Maybe I'm just hypercorrecting phantom malglico, but I don't think "xrani ko'a lo ka cinmo" is necessary, when we have

{ ko'a gasnu lo nu ko'e badri }

I mean, wounding someone's emotions is certainly poetic, but IMO not the most straightforward way to go about making someone unhappy in lojban.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:08, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
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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