| In a message dated 7/14/2001 7:27:37 PM Central Daylight Time,
sjhsniffen@crosswinds.net writes: but how do you say Well, if you mean what English usually means by "Make the bird speak Lojban.", then the addressee is a part of the action -- he has to do something to get the bird to do something. The usual device here is {gasnu} "X1 is agentive cause of event X2", so {ko gasnu lenu le cipni cu tavla fo la lojban}. However, if what you want is a third person imperative, as it were: "O that the bird talks Lojban" or some such thing, then you have to reassign {ko} from {do} to {le cipni} :{ko goi le cipni cu tavla fo la lojban}. |