On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 04:40:30PM +0000, tijlan wrote:
> On 6 November 2011 05:36, Robin Lee Powell
> <
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The personal feeling that there is an obligation can be
> independent of how the goal is to be achieved. For example, I
> could be feeling that a broken public bridge in my town ought to
> be repaired but not that the repairer ought to be me myself. {.ei
> cikre lo cripu} wouldn't necessarily mean that the speaker is
> feeling personally obligated to do anything for the bridge