Re: [lojban] Regularization

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

Taking all that into account is {va'o lonu mi ponse lo dalpe'o dinsauru} "Since 
I have a pet dinosaur" or is it merely indeterminate as to the truth of the 
condition?



----- Original Message ----
From: Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Cc: Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 8:20:14 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Regularization

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Counterfactual meaning not as things are, but as they might be.  So,
> for example "va'o lo nu lo snime cu carvi kei mi ma'ekla le birju"->
> "I drive to the office in the snow" ("in the situation of it snowing,
> I drive to the office")  "va'o da'i lo nu lo snime cu carvi kei mi
> ma'ekla le birju" -> "if it snows, I will drive to the office".  ("in
> the theoretical situation of it snowing, I drive to the office")
>          Clearer?

A little bit. I guess that in the translation of "if I had a pet dinosaur"

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=784

Instead of {va'o lonu mi ponse lo dalpe'o dinsauru}) I should have
used {va'o da'i lonu mi ponse
lo dalpe'o dinsauru}

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