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Re: [lojban] hope



In a message dated 6/15/2001 8:19:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
graywyvern@hotmail.com writes:


i wonder if future
lojbanists will end up using "pacna ledu'u" exclusively for this
sort of optative statement....


Hopefully not (ah, what would that be in Lojban?) since that is clearly only
descriptive :"I have a hope that...." not the _expression_ of a hope, as an
optative "O would that..." (somebody's Latin 1 book).