[lojban-beginners] Re: imperative {mi}?

["Philip Newton" <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On 5/10/06, Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> wrote:
> entries in a todo list where I might write "wash the car" or "pay
> the phone bill".

Hm, I wonder what "pay the phone bill" is -- {pleji fo lo fonxa
janta}? {pleji fo lo janta be lo se fonxa}?

"To pay a bill" doesn't seem to map well into the place structure of
{pleji}, since the bill is neither the recipient of the payment nor
the service paid for, and while {janta} is good for "bill", I'm not
sure how to specify that it's a phone bill -- what goes into x2? {lo
se fonxa} "the telephone network"? But that's not a service... {lo te
selfu pe lo se fonxa} "the service loosely associated with the
telephone network"?

mu'o mi'e .filip.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>