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Re: [lojban] Re: possible worlds



In a message dated 6/20/2001 6:25:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
rob@twcny.rr.com writes:


.i le da'i logji cmavo poi roroi mapti zoi <if, then> cu du lo da'i logji
cmavo poi da'inai na zasti

Something ain't quite right here -- and in a previous post from the same
source.  I guess that -- whether discursive or "attitudinal" -- {da'i} can go
anywhere in a sentence, but it seems pretty clear that in at least some
places here it is adjectival to {logji cmavo}, meaning either "supposed" or
"{da'i}-like" ({se sruma}, more or less, or {me zo da'i} more or less).  The
point is clear and certainly true, but the mode of _expression_ leaves a bit to
be desired (am I about to be plonked again?)