Re: [lojban] Robin retry: commands.

["John E. Clifford" <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

That sounds like what at least the recipient would call a demand or bossing or ordering about, all implying that the ordered has no power to command.

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On May 4, 2013, at 18:39, Betsemes <betsemes@gmail.com> wrote:

> When I think of this subject about giving commands, the mental image I
> get is about someone trusting his command will be obeyed. Constraint,
> agression, or hauteur comes as a sign of someone who has not any
> significant authority, so some additional force have to be used on the
> command in order to be obeyed. That's just my very personal take of
> this about commands.
> 
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 10:23:51PM +0200, selpa'i wrote:
>>> la .camgusmis. cu cusku di'e
>>>> I think {le'o} and {ga'i} between them do what I want, depending
>>>> on situation.
>>> 
>>> This would seem to imply that all commands are either expressed
>>> aggressively or with hauteur, which I personally find doubtful.
>>> There is a certain force behind a command, but the nature of that
>>> force needn't correspond to one of those two, in my opinion.
>>> 
>>> Has {.e'i} fallen out of favor with you again?
>> 
>> Eeeeenh?  Having noticed {le'o}, I simply acknowledged that that was
>> what I really wanted, in terms of emotional content.  I'm on the
>> fence about {.e'i} (which never stopped being true).
>> 
>> -Robin
>> 
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