[lojban] Re: according to

[la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Monday, March 18, 2013 6:00:28 PM UTC+4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> "du'o" is glossed "according to". It's quite common, though, for the object of 
> "according to" to be someone who doesn't know it for certain, but asserts it 
> to be true, maybe to the best of his knowledge, but maybe he's lying. This is 
> better expressed by "fi'o xusra", which doesn't have a corresponding word in 
> BAI. How about "xu'a" as an experimental cmavo for "fi'o xusra"?

sorry for straightforwardness but how about NOT using BAI at all (memorising 64 cmavo is a hard trick for newbies).

how about {sei ko'a xusra} ?

if u dont agree that {sei} is fine why not define *one* one-syllable cmavo instead of slowly replicating the whole gimste in BAI-space ?

> Pierre
> -- 
> gau do li'i co'e kei do

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