Re: [lojban] Extensibility of vocatives (do'a non-selbri)

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Since these last few days have been devoted to "the right way" to say a 
conventional utterance like "Good Night", why not just use a relevant utterance 
and make a convention about it.  Loglan had 'speni lo gudbi'  (which was 
probably eventually something else) "Experience good things". Note it is not an 
imperative nor a hortative or the like, just a bare form floating around, just 
the sort of thing for a conventional utterance.  Of course, you have to 
translate it over and maybe dress it up for particular occasions (Good Night, 
Happy Birthday, etc.) but the general pattern has been around for 55 years now.  
why diddle?


----- Original Message ----
From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 4:52:47 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Extensibility of vocatives (do'a non-selbri)

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there an experimental cmavo which binds two things into a tanru-like
> state? sa'unai something which takes the grammar of the right word, with the
> meaning modified in some vague way by the selbri to its left?

Sounds like "ze'ei" to me.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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