Re: [lojban] About having lunch....

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

Llu'is Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I don't know how can I utter something like "I have lunch here".
> I suggest:
>    mi vi citka le dormijysai
>
> But that meaning is "I eat the lunch here". It isn't the same... so anyone
> suggests a better way of saying that?

What is the difference between eating lunch and having lunch?  English 
frequently uses "have" where the action involved is obvious.  If you 
want to emphasise the whole event of lunch rather than the mere eating 
of it, I suppose you could use a "nu" construction, but I can't really 
see the point.  In many natural languages, you'd have to say "eat lunch" 
anyway.

robin.tr

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