Re: [lojban] Baby words: "I accept" as a selbri?

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:41:16PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > The original was something like "I'm willing to carry you all
> > the time, I just can't walk any more".  I got stuck on the first
> > clause.
>
> To be willing to do something you just can't do doesn't seem to
> take much commitment, does it?

I was afraid that confusion would occur.  I was still willing to
*hold* them, and even hold them standing up, but not to continue
walking (they wouldn't stop crying unless I was actually walking).
So those are two disparate clauses; pamjai and cadzu.

> For "amenable" I use "bredi", but I'm not sure it works when you
> are unable to do it.

Hmmm.  Yeah, {bredi} is pretty good, thanks.

  I'm not so sure about "bredi".  There is a reason the _expression_  is "ready, willing, and able" -- They imply three different states.  I should think "willing" might be more in the domain of sarxe/tugni/mapti. I.e, my internal state is in accord with yours, whether or not I am actually able or prepared to do so.

               --gejyspa

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