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Re: [lojban] ridiculous propaganda posters



On Friday, September 21, 2012 3:23:21 PM UTC-6, tsani wrote:
{.i .u'u doi la daiv .i .e'anai ku'i mi na curmi le nu do go'i}
For this purpose you should use {lo} (using {le} here offers no benifits really. There're almost no practical cases where {le nu} is ever needed.)
{.e'a} (and by extension {.e'anai}) is what we call an "irrealis attitudinal". What that means is that it basically describes a non-real world. {.e'anai do go'i} by *itself* means "I'm not letting you do that," whereas {.e'anai mi na curmi lo nu do go'i} means "I'm not allowing it to not be the case that I allow you to do that," which sounds approximately as semantically wrong in English as it does in Lojban :p.

Thanks for explaining all this. I was the least certain of this one in particular (and "ko xabju" but I didn't see a closer word for "abide", but I think the ambiguity is part of the fun of that movie).

I take it either of these alternatives would be closer then:

 - .u'u doi la .dev. .ie'anai go'i
 - .u'u doi la .dev. .i ku'i mi na curmi lo nu do go'i

Is that true?

Otherwise the pictures are pretty good. The "style" is a bit weird, but that's simply due to being new.

Hopefully that will improve as I read more.
 
.i'osai ui .i lo cnino cu se jmina vau .a'o

Thanks! :)

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