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(2) Scope of {ko}.
Is {ganai X gi ko Y} to be understood as "If X is true then make
Y true", or is it "make 'if X then Y' true"?
In other words, is {ganai do djica gi ko terpa} equivalent to
{ganai ko djica gi do terpa} for example?
I don't think this has ever been satisfactorily settled.
Does the issue go away if you replace forethought with afterthought connectives?
{ko terpa i ja nai bo do djica lo nu do terpa}
If Yanis's translation "If you want to fear, then fear" is the desired outcome, er, I posit that imperatives in the apodosis ("'then' clause") of conditional sentences don't make logical sense. Hence in Lojban one would prefer {ga nai do djica lo nu do terpa gi mi mutce stidi lo nu do terpa}
mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan