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RE: [lojban] A or B, depending on C, and related issues
pc:
> jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:
>
> Couldn't "wonder" be thought of as "interested/curious to know",
> or something like that, so that it gets reduced to the "know" case?
>
> Maybe, though I don't see that it is necessarily so -- why not just "curious
> about" for example ({kucli} after all), looking over various possibilities,
> say.
The best treatment of "wonder" is as "desirous/interested to know",
but that is not an adequate treatment of "curious about" and "wonder
about", though in turn these can be reduced to "desirous/interested
to know about".
> <So how do you say "my apparel varies with my destination" in Lojban?
> I don't see an easy way without {kau}.>
>
> {lemi se dasni cu cenba fo lenu lemi seklama cu cenba} for starters
I'd interpret this to mean that the items of clothing undergo change,
not that I wear different things when going to different destinations.
--And.