Re: [lojban] Regularization

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a pretty hackish solution: "if, hypothetically, blah blah happened
> (it didn't, by the way), this would happen". And {va'o da'i je'unai} is 7
> syllables anyway, that's getting a little bit extreme to be a viable
> solution.
>
> Still, {da'i} itself is not explicitly the not-necessarily-counterfactual
> case, so you haven't fully solved my issue either. {da'i je'u} isn't the
> other case either; {da'i je'u} is just pointless, actually. {da'i je'u cu'i}
> MIGHT help, I'm not sure.
>
  I assert da'i itself is explicitly the
not-necessarily-counterfactual case and that it is equivalent to da'i
je'u cu'i, and that "va'o da'i lo nu" ="if it is true that A..." But
you were asking about the case of also implying simultaneously that A
is *in fact* false, and I don't know of handier way of saying it in
lojban than je'unai.  Not every grammatical structure that exists in
one language must perforce exist in another language with similar
ease, ya know.
            --gejyspa

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