Re: [lojban-beginners] "and" question

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

On 8 August 2010 21:49, rpglover64 <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all.  I've been looking over the reference grammar and "Lojban for
Beginners" and trying to learn lojban by trying to convert my English
expressions into lojban.

I looked in most of the logical connectives chapter of the reference
grammar, but I couldn't figure out the answer to my question.

In lojban, how does one connect two otherwise independent sentences in
such a way as to imply that they are related.  e.g. We went to the
store, and Sally bought fish.

coi lo prami be lo nuntigykei (Hi, lover of role-playing-game)


With "bo", you can indicate that a pair of conjoined sentences are more related to one another than to other sentences:

 (we went to the store) .i bo (Sally bought fish)

It may correspond to a semicolon in English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon).

With "je", you can indicate that both sentences are true (in an implicit particular instance):

 (we went to the store) .i je (Sally bought fish)

This may be the closest to the "and" in your example.

If by "and" you also meant a temporal sequence ("and then"), you could
indicate that the event of "Sally bought fish" happened after "we went
to the store" by adding "ba" to "je". For a syntactical reason, you
would also have to add "bo" at the end of the conjunction:

 (we went to the store) .i je ba bo (Sally bought fish)

(You may write ".i je ba bo" as ".ijebabo", if you want. It wouldn't affect the syntax.)


tijlan

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