Or is the problem a collapsing of clauses in the English, since they could be expanded as {I assert that it is true that John goes to the market} and {I assert that I want John to go to the market}.
Even more lojbanically, these could be {I assert that the event of (John goes to the market) is true} and {I assert that I want the event of (John goes to the market) to be true}. When I expand them all the way out like this, I'm not sure that "supposing" quite fits in this case. It would for hypothetical cases -- the other major use of the subjunctive -- but I don't see how I'm really supposing anything.
mo'umi'e .alex. On Feb 16, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0500, Alex Joseph Martini wrote:What is the way to express the equivalent of the subjunctive mood in lojban?da'i UI3 supposing discursive: supposing - in fact (cf. sruma) -Robin