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Re: [lojban] me le cmalu turni me'u panomoi bo pagbu
la djorden cusku di'e
>erm... {ei} is almost always used to talk about the speaker.
>for example:
> ca gunka .ei
>means "I need to work", not "you should work".
Yes, if it's understood as {mi ca gunka ei}: "I should work now".
>If I say
> do ca gunka .ei
>it means that *I* feel obliged that you work. (Perhaps i'm a
>middle-manager).
No. The way I understand it is "I feel that things should be
such that you are now working", i.e. "you should work".
>To mean what you want I think the dai is neccesary:
> do ca gunka .eidai
To me that would mean that I empathize with your feeling
that things should be such that you work. Not "you should
be working" but "you feel you should be working".
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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