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[lojban-beginners] Re: threats



Robin Lee Powell wrote:

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:58:38AM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
On 8/13/05, Sunnan <sunnan@handgranat.org> wrote:
Much better, thanks! I've changed it to {ija} on the page, but
let me rephrase the question: is a boolean a good way to express
a threat? Is {ko smaji .ija mi cecla fa'a do} a reasonable
sentence?
I always get the feeling that something is missing here, because
there is no causality implied between the two sentences, but I
don't really have anything better to suggest at this point, so...

ko smaji .i mi mu'i lo nu na go'i cu cecla fa'a do
Nice, elegant solution. Would making that {.i} into a boolean be better, or unnecessary? Your sentence looks a bit like "shut up. i shoot you for reason that you did not shut up", there is no "if" between them, there's no alternative to the shooting.