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[lojban-beginners] Subjunctive in Lojban
What is the way to exspress the equivalent of the subjunctive mood in
lojban? In American English, this would be the difference between {I
insist that Joe goes to class} and {I insist that Joe go to class}.
The first one is declarative and says that it's true, the second just
says that I *want* it to be true. I think the British English version
of the second sentence is {I insist that Joe should go to class}.
The distinction is pretty slight in English, so it tends to be
supplemented with other words around it. In all honesty, I didn't
even know that the subjunctive existed until I studied it in Spanish.
Is there a way to make this distinction in lojban?
mu'omi'e .alex.