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[lojban] Re: du ra'o



On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> I thought of a possible use for {du ra'o}: {mi du ra'o da'i do .ibo mi na
> gasnu ta}. How does that sound for "If I were you, I wouldn't do that"?

How would we distinguish it from "If you were me"? Or for that matter,
"if we were the same person"?

I think "If I were you" is "va'o lo nu da'i mi me do", where "do" is
predicated of "mi".

> We still have to figure out what {co'e ra'o} means...

"Mutatis mutandis"?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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