Re: [lojban] re : translation challenge: "If today is Monday..."

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/13/2001 1:04:38 PM Central Daylight Time, rob@twcny.rr.com writes:

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:28:12PM +0200, G. Dyke wrote:
> I don't like {mu'ei} ! (I had written a long paragraph explaining why, but I
> erased it 'cause much of what I said doesn't make sense - I suppose I just
> don't like the idea of lojban not being able to express something which is
> so obvious in natural language)

... what?

Because you don't like the idea of Lojban not being able to express the
subjunctive, you argue _against_ the thing which would make it
expressible?

I suppose the point is that Lojban can *already* deal with subjunctives; we just have not yet worked out how to do it.  Running off after new devices before we have exhausted the capabilities of the ones we have is a vile practice of the lazy.  (I made that last part up myself).  Notice that there are at least two solutions to &'s question provided within standard Lojban.