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Re: [lojban] {bapli} and agentive compulsion

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Adam COOPER wrote:


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'd suggest {.i la ben jai bapli lo nu la con cliva}.  This seems like exactly
the reason that {jai} exists.

On a side note, "Sean", as I pronounce it at least, is closer to {can} than
{con}.
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Adam Lopresto
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The old saw about the early bird just goes to show that the worm should have
stayed in bed. (Heinlein 1973)