Re: [lojban] {bapli} and agentive compulsion

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

3: {tu'a la ben bapli ...}; this is 1 in
principle, but shorter and stresses Ben's role.

--- Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com> wrote:

> coi ro do
> I've got an example sentence: "Ben forces Sean
> to leave."
> To express simple agentive compulsion using
> bapli (x1 [force] (ka)
> forces/compels event x2 to occur; x1 determines
> property x2 to manifest) is
> it best to
> 
>    1. be true to the definition along the lines
> of { lo ka la ben kakne
>    cu bapli lo nu la con cliva }
>    2. cheat along the lines of { la ben bapli
> lo nu la con cliva }
>    3. something else I'm overlooking ?
> 
> i ki'e mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan
>