[lojban] Re: "But if that were true..."

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sunday 23 January 2005 21:25, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I found myself with:
>
>     mi pacna lo nu na broda
>
> Where broda was very complicated, and wanting to say "but *if* it
> were true, then".
>
> I used
>
>     .i ku'i lo ja'a se go'i ja'a mukti ...
>
> But I'm pretty sure that doesn't "fix" the na in the previous
> sentence.  I'm quite sick right now, and too brain-dead to figure
> this out on my own.  Help?

{lo ja'a se go'i} amounts to {lo nu na broda}, since {pacna} wasn't negated 
the {ja'a} has no effect. I would say {lo nu ja'a go'a}. {go'i} repeats 
{pacna}, and {go'e} whatever top-level bridi preceded that, so {broda}, being 
embedded, is fair game for {go'a}.

phma
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