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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:09:09AM -0500, Adam COOPER wrote:
> Also, as far as I know, {nu} & the other abstractors like {du'u} &
> {si'o} always take a bridi.

Correct.

> > No, I did want a strong suggestion, although it seems like there
> > isn't a poetic way to phrase it.  

I thought {.e'u sai do tavla fo la lojban} was just fine, and poetic
enough.

> > On the other hand I don't want to say "I kinda sorta think maybe
> > if it's not too much trouble we could all speak lojban please?"
> > so in that sense it's something of a command. 
> 
> Maybe you could get away with {.e'u cai ro ko tavla fo la lojban.}
> in which the attitudinal softens the bridi from a command to a
> suggestion.

Softens it a bit, though.

> Some folks suggested {... ro do ko ...} I don't get why one would
> need {do} along with {ko}.

Not only do you not need it, this doesn't work at all.  Some people
suggested {doi ro do ko tavla}, which binds "who I'm talking to" to
"all of you", and then uses that as a command.  You could also do
{doi ro prenu ko tavla} or {xamgu fa lo nu ro prenu cu tavla} or
several other variants.

-Robin

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