Re: Fwd: [lojban] Subjunctive?

[Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>

SwiftRain wrote:
> 
> From: SwiftRain <swiftrain@geocities.com>
> 
> Pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >      If I had a million pounds/dollars/kroner
> >          then I'd be rich.
> 
> why is this a complicated issue, doi jbopre?
> 
> is there something wrong with lu
> "ganai mi ponse lo megdo rupnu gi mi ricfu"
> li'u?

While the discussion of counterfactuals has been interesting, I
agree with this. {ganai ... gi} is a logical IF, not an English
"if", and whether I really have a million squeebies, or the
potential to aquire them, is not relevant. 

zo'o mi ponse lo megdo rupnu .i ku'i mi na ricfu ni'i lenu
panononononono lo gugdrturki,e rupnu cu jbivamji re lo merko
rupnu 

co'o mi'e robin.

(1,000,000 Turkish Lira is apporoximately equal to $2.00)

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