[lojban] Re: "Confess" / "admit"

[Jorge Llambías <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 9/21/05, Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Four girls confessed to starting a fire."
> { vo nixli cu cusku lo pu se mipri be vo'a ku no'u lo se du'u zekri jelcfa }

   lo vo nixli cu fu'esku lo nu vo'a [zekri] cfagau lo fagri

or {ny cusku lo se du'u vo'a fuzme lo nu vo'a cfagau lo fagri}.

If you say {vo nixli}, then you are saying that each of the four girls confessed
that she started a fire. {lo vo nixli} allows for them confessing (and
starting it)
together. {loi vo nixli} would definitely say that they confessed as a group.

{lo fagri cu cfari}, {lo nixli cu gasnu lo nu lo fagri cu cfari},
{lo nixli cu cfagau lo fagri}

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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