Re: Robin does the xorban (was Re: [lojban] Baby Words: "you're right" and orders.)

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

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:56:57 PM UTC+4, Robin Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:42:00PM +0200, selpa'i wrote:
> > la .camgusmis. cu cusku di'e
> > >1.  How would you mark a {ko} that's an order?  I use {e'o} for
> > >requests.  For "You must do this!" I've been using {ga'i}, but
> > >it's a tad unsatisfying.
> > 
> > The currently proposed BPFK meaning for {.e'i} is just that.
> > {.e'i} becomes an irrealis attitudinal marking a command/order.
> > Although this may seem like a big change to definition of the
> > word, it seems to be the only way to express orders of this kind,
> > so:
> > 
> > {.e'i do na broda}
> > 
> > I'm not sure I am 100% behind this definition, but the above
> > argument speaks for it.
>
> Given the incredibly tiny usage of {.e'i} according to the corpus
> application (250 uses on IRC, and essentially none elsewhere,
> especially if you ignore xorxes' usages since this was his
> tinkering), I've decided that my household dialect will, in fact,
> use {.e'i} as a command imperative.

who has approved of it:

1.camgusmis

2.gleki

who is against it:

1.

> I do not, at this time, mean to impose this on anyone else, but I
> thouht it was worth publically noting.
>
> -Robin

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