Re: [lojban] babies: "you might as well sleep"

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 11:05:58AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:37:29AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >>
> >> "might as well" means "have no reason not to", so you could say
> >> ".ei no da fanta lo nu do sipna".
> >
> > What's the {.ei} there for?
> 
> Just to make it a little less presumptuous: "there ought to be
> nothing preventing you from sleeping" instead of a plain "nothing
> prevents you from sleeping". You could leave it out too.

Huh.  That's not what I think {.ei} means at all.  I read that as
"I, the speaker, am feeling obligated/constrained about something
having to do with nothing preventing you from sleeping".  I don't
get your use there at all.

-Robin

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