[lojban] Re: Non-logical (incidental) "if"?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Randall Nortman scripsit:

>   I'm going to the store if you want to come along.
> 
> This is clearly not a logical if-then statement.  This is, "I'm going
> to the store now, which is relevant to your decision to go to the
> store because my going to the store makes it more convenient for you
> to go to the store."  Of course, one could just say:
> 
>   mi klama le zarci .i xu do klama
> 
> But this does not fully capture the sentiment of the English.  Is
> there a more elegant way?

I like "mi klama le zarci .iju do klama".  The force of the English
"...whether or not you are coming" sounds like I don't care what you  do,
but this implicature is *not* present in the Lojban version.

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