Re: [lojban] Japanese has no subjunctive??

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

>     My wife reports that subjunctive grammar, e.g. if I had studied,
>     I would have done better on the test, are very difficult, since
>     none of this grammar is found in Japanese.
> 
> If this is true, and I find it unlikely, how do the Japanese talk
> about subjunctives?  Or do they simply (and I find this
> unimaginable) not do so?

Context is all.  See the Chinese example in
the Red Book, Chapter 13, examples 12.5 to 12.7
(http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter13.html#e12d5).

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