Re: [lojban] so'o preti

[Rob Speer <rob@twcny.rr.com>]

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
what it might appear to others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared
to them to be otherwise."

A = what you had been
B = what A would have appeared to them to be, under other circumstances
C = what you were or might have been
D = the idea that C is the same as B
E = others' concept of you, when they believe that D is true

Removing some double negatives from the beginning, the sentence seems to say,
"Imagine yourself to be something other than E".

-- 
Rob Speer