[lojban-beginners] Re: threats

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

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:34:30PM +0200, Sunnan wrote:
> 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? 

"mu'i" asserts a causal relationship.  Booleans do not, so they are
bad for this sort of thing.

I should have had a "da'i" in there, though.  Opps.  A future tense
tag would also be nice.  Ooops.

ko smaji .i da'i mi mu'i lo nu na go'i ba cecla fa'a do

-Robin

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