[lojban] Re: Japanese has no subjunctive??

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>>     My wife reports that subjunctive grammar, e.g. if I had studied,
>>     I would have done better on the test, are very difficult, since
>>     none of this grammar is found in Japanese.
>>
>> If this is true, and I find it unlikely, how do the Japanese talk
>> about subjunctives?  Or do they simply (and I find this
>> unimaginable) not do so?

>Context is all.  See the Chinese example in
>the Red Book, Chapter 13, examples 12.5 to 12.7
>(http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter13.html#e12d5)