Re: [lojban] Lions and levels and the like

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>   Of course, in many cases where xorxes wants to use ka'e for "it's
> possible",

It's not that I want to use "ka'e" for "it's possible", it's the other
way around, I want "it's possible", or "it could be", for "ka'e".

So what you need to tell us is not how you'd say "it's possible", but
how you'd understand for example "ka'e ku no da klama".

> I'd personally choose to not use a CAhA at all, but la'acu'i

Something can also be possible and extremely likely, or possible and
extremely unlikely. If "possible" corresponds to "su'o", then the la'a
scale corresponds to so'a/so'e/so'i/so'o/so'u.

>(or
> go to full-blown brivla using cumki), while recognizing that it's not
> precisely the same part of speech, and perhaps not the same logical
> implications, I think it does convey the same meaning.

That was my point, "ka'e ku broda" has basically the same meanimg as
"cumki fa lo nu broda". Or more precisely, "ka'e" is "fi'o se cumki".

> In any case, I
> wondered about the following utterance (I'm pretty sure xorxes would like it
> and understand it in the way I intend): "va'o lo nu da'i ka'e no'a kei mi ba
> co'e" (hint: it's a six syllable in English).  Is it clear? (Probably less
> clear as "va'olonuda'ika'eno'akeimibaco'e" ;-) )

"If I can I will"? I count five syllables.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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