Re: [lojban] {bapli} and agentive compulsion

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 2/27/06, 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
>
> be true to the definition along the lines of { lo ka la ben kakne cu bapli
> lo nu la con cliva }

(Do you mean {zukte} rather than {kakne}?) How would a property
force Sean to leave? If anything it would seem an event (nu) would go
there rather than a property (ka).

> cheat along the lines of { la ben bapli lo nu la con cliva }

That's how I would say it. If that is cheating, then Lojban can't
be spoken without cheating.

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