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Re: [lojban] Re: Phrases for language learners



In a message dated 8/17/2002 11:53:33 AM Central Daylight Time, Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de writes:


So something like {ko fanva zoi gy. I love you .gy. la lojban fu
makau}, making it an indirect question explicitly?


Well, that doesn't make an explicit indirect question but put an explicit subordinate clause marker in the main clause, which seems a bad idea.  Several people have tried various notions of what {kau} might mean in a main clause, but I don't think any of them were very plausible and certainly none of them have won general acceptance.
So, I would go with either {ko fanva zoi gy I love you gy la lojban } or {do fanva zoi gy I love you gy la lojban fu ma} -- an ordinary request or an question.

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