Re: [lojban] Re: Lojbanic equivalent for Italian ciao

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

The CLL says that COI can be suffixed with NAI... I don't see there being any problem with that either. [ju'inai] is defined as meaning "ignore me", as per vlasisku. And, more to the point, [coinai] is defined as "goodbye". The "address refusal meaning" is carried more specifically by [doinai]. [mi'enai] like Pierre said, is "I'm not X" which is pretty useful.

Huh, in fact, a whole section of the CLL is dedicated to vocative scales.

http://dag.github.com/cll/13/14/ 

mi'enai na'e bo la tsani mu'o

On 5 March 2012 21:12, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Monday, March 05, 2012 20:43:44 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Also, where do you get that coinai means goodbye? co'o means goodbye. I'm
> not aware it saying anywhere that cmavo of COI can be modified by NAI.
> Could you link the relevant passage?

According to my recollection of a discussion long ago, "coinai" means that
you're refusing to greet someone. I'm not sure how that would be used without
contriving, but both "mi'enai" and "co'onai" have clear uses. If someone
yelled at you "ju'i blub!", you could answer "mi'enai blub", and if someone
said "co'o" when you're not ready to go or for him to go, you can answer
"co'onai".

Pierre
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