Re: [lojban] Re: To be polite in lojban.

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Betsemes <betsemes@gmail.com> wrote:

From the dictionary (Edition 4 - March 2009):

e'o cmavo [UI1]$e'o$
attitudinal: request - negative request.
See also cpedu, pikci.

What is a negative request? A command? How a negative request would be used?

  The short answer is "it's never actually been used, so plainly no one really is comfortable with it"
   The longer answer #1 is "According to xorxes' opinion, as a member of the BPFK, and expressed on the proposed definition page http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Section:+Irrealis+Attitudinals, it should be used as an offer: .e'o nai ko lebna lo titla
Here, have some candy."

  The longer answer #2 is I believe that "negative request" means an _expression_ of desire that something not happen: ".e'onai do citka sepi'o lo degji" "I really wish you wouldn't eat with your fingers"

           --gejyspa