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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>   I agree, but xorxes has long used the eY series of UI in an idiosyncratic
> way.

".ei" is not really part of the e'V-series.

The e'V series is used for the speaker to
allow/exhort/compel/request/advice the listener to do something. With
".ei" the listener is not especially relevant. ".ei" belongs with
".au", ".a'o" and (perhaps) ".ai", it shows how the speaker feels
towards a posited (irrealis) state of affairs.

> On a completely different topic, his second sentence, "i so'i
> so'i da cnino noi mi pa roi ganse cu sruri mi doi tolcitno nanmu" doesn't
> parse.  Now, given that a less-than-one-month old is presumably saying it,
> it's pretty darn good lojban, but you can't put a NOI on a selbri, despite
> my saying that you should be able to.  Was "da" simply a mistaken inclusion?

Yes, I had "so'i so'i da poi cnino" initially, then decided to remove
the "poi" but forgot to remove the "da".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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