Re: [lojban] Time for the perenial other-centric-.ui conversation

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that I've remembered the absurdly useful "kau", my understanding of
> da'oi is that it is basically a shortcut for ... peikau doi...  e.g.  "do
> flira farlu .oiro'o da'oi la .nik."  =  "do flira farlu .oiro'opeikau doi la
> .nik."

Not quite. "da'oi" can be used to express empathy with a third party,
while "doi" only idenifies your interlocutor. "da'oi" is an expanded
"dai", such that "dai"="da'oi zo'e".

Also, you may be confusing "kau" with "paunai". "kau" outside of a
subordinate clause will tell you "whatever the answer to this question
is", it is not "this is a rhetorical question". So "oipeikau" is more
like "whether you like it or not, it doesn't really matter what your
answer is".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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