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[lojban-beginners] Re: "and" question



> Hi all.  I've been looking over the reference grammar and "Lojban for Beginners"

I'd recommend staying away from L4B, and only reading CLL after you've
gone through the wave lesson and understand as much of that as you're
going to. CLL is somewhat out of date, and is not meant as learning
material.

> and trying to learn lojban by trying to convert my English expressions into lojban.

That is probably one of the worst things you can do to learn Lojban.
This is often considered "malgli" and is frowned upon by all speakers.
Please make a habit of translating -meanings- and not -words- or
people will be very confused by what you say. English phrases and
metaphor, sometimes even including sentence structure, are highly
frowned upon in Lojban. Using {sakci} as English "sucks" or {ganxo}
for calling somebody an "asshole" is very bad.

> 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.

You want {.ije} as previous people have said. {.i mi dansu .ije do
flira} or {.i mi finpe .ijebo do cipni} if you want them to be more
closely linked.

If you want further help, feel free to PM me on facebook, e-mail me,
or talk to somebody on the #lojban IRC channel.

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