[lojban-beginners] Re: Everyone should speak lojban?

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:49:44 -0800, Tasci <pubsynx7hye@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Raphaël Poss wrote:
> 
>  > I'd rather say "doi rodo ko tavla fo la lojban"
> 
> ro do ko?  I had thought do and ko both were pro-sumti for 'you', the
> latter being imperitive?

Yes.

> cmavo always confuse me because of their priveleged status outside of
> any kind of restrictive grammar.  Are you saying that 'doi ro do' can be
> taken as a single sentence modifier thingy referring to 'all of you',

Kind of. "doi" is a vocative marker (roughly comparable to "Hey,
<name>!" or "O <name>!" or "<name>, I'm speaking to *you*"), and also
specifies what "do" and "ko" will thereafter refer to.

So "doi ro do" not only says "I'm talking to all of you" but makes
"do" and "ko" refer to "all of you" afterwards, not just, say, one
person.

> and your sentence reads something like "All of you, you must speak lojban."?

Something like that, yes.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>