[lojban] Re: Denoting counterfactual sentences in Lojban?

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 9:24 PM, John E Clifford
> <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > The suggestion to put it into abstract form,
> {nu}
> > or {du'u}, is a good one except that it is
> hard
> > to see what the appropriate sentences would
> be;
> > what selbri goes with the abstract sumti. 
> 
> ko'a nu la suzan klama
> i ko'e du'u ko'a lerci
> i ko'i du'u la jan djuno ko'e
> i la suzan sruma ko'i

Nice!
 
> You can also use {ju'a nai} to mark something
> as a non-assertion:

I'm not sure what this would mean:"I don't state"
as an evidential.  So little evidence that I
don't really want to put it forth at all? But it
still seems to be an assertion.
 
> lo nu la suzan klama cu lerci
> i ju'a nai la jan djuno la'e di'u
> i la suzan sruma la'e di'u 
> 
More doubtful.