If I understand {ga'i} correctly, it marks the referent to be of lower
rank. I don't think this is appropriate to mark it as a command.{ga'i} marks the speaker to be higher rank; {ga'i nai} marks the speaker to be lower rank.
{le'o}, according to jbovlaste is aggressiveness. If the commander
feels the need to be aggressive when giving commands, that hints to
some kind of inner shortcoming, so that he feels he needs to give the
command some additional force to compensate; and that makes it, in my
opinion, not a universal way to mark a "ko-bridi" as a command.I agree.
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{e'i} is "feeling constraint" according to jbovlaste. According to the
Merrian-Webster dictionary (sorry, I'm not an English-native),
"constraint" is:
This seems to be the way the one receiving the command should feel,
not the commander's.Yes, but the discussion is about whether to redefine (or at least to use dialectically) {e'i} to be more in line with {e'o}, {e'u}, and {e'a}.
According to jbovlaste, {e'o} means "attitudinal: request - negative
request.". This doesn't look like a feeling, more like an intention;
the speaker's intention to make a request. There might be a plethora
of different feelings attached to this intention depending on the one
making the request. This is what we need to mark a "ko-bridi" as a
command. We need to clearly state the "ko-bridi" is a command.
I'm no expert here, so I may be wrong, but my understanding on "ko
broda" is it means "make {ko broda} true", either as a request, or as
a command. The CLL makes a request explicit with "e'o ko broda".
What about "e'onai ko broda"? {e'onai} means "negative request"
according to jbovlaste. So what is a negative request? My naive
interpretation:
e'onai ko broda
negative request, make "ko broda" true
this is not a request, make "ko broda" true
this is an order, make "ko broda" true
The experts here can explain why I am wrong...."negative request" seems to have been interpreted as "please don't" in the few uses I read of the few uses I found (here: http://www.lojban.org/corpus/)
The BPFK proposed revision is to make {e'o nai} an offer.The problem with your logic for making {e'o nai} a command is that an analogous argument can be made for {e'u nai}.