Re: [lojban-beginners] Questions about imperatives

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the lojban word for "imperative"?  http://vlasisku.lojban.org/
> redirects a search for "imperative" to {ko}.

  As a linguistic concept?  I'd probably say "midbri"

> How would one say something like "Let's go." in lojban.  i.e. an imperative
> directed at a group of which the speaker is a part.  Would it just be {ko
> klama}?

  You can say "doi ma'a ko klama" ("Hey us, go!").  By addressing
yourself as the argument of "doi", you include yourself in the
definition of do and ko.

> (only loosely related to imperatives, but it's in the same train of thought
> for me)  How does one say something like "Long live the king.", which I
> think of (with my non linguistically-trained mind) as an imperative directed
> at the universe, synonymous with "May the king live long."
>

  You're really expressing a hope, I'd say.  "a'o lo nolraitru ze'u jmive"
           --gejyspa

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