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



On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 00:06, Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com> wrote:
{.a'o xamgu nicte}

Yea, that seems better... I was testing out .a'o and .e'u in my mind, testing their "contrapositives" to see which one seems most opposite of the English:

.e'u xamgu nicte - [Why don't you have a] good night [, eh?]
.e'unai xlali nicte - [Warning, caution, no] bad nights [, ya hear?]

.a'o xamgu nicte - [Hopefully it'll be a] good night!
.a'onai xlali nicte - [Oh no! It's bound to be a] bad night!

Anyhow, I'm sharing because this exercise helped me prefer .a'o over .e'u.

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