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Re: [lojban] [oz] Abstractors


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:01 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
la .xorxes. cu cusku di'e

Wouldn't "zukte ro lo se kakne be se va'u do" work?

Yes, it would.

The difference is just between doing and bringing about. The one I went with ({gasnu ro lo jai se kakne}, which means {gasnu ro lo jai se kakne be se va'u do bei fai lo ka gasnu}), says that he'll bring about all the things he can bring about, possibly including things he can't do himself, so I think I prefer gasnu in this case. That is not to say that {zukte} wouldn't work, of course.


What was it in English? I thought it would be something like "I'll do all I can for you" rather than "I'll make sure everything that can be done for you gets done".

In any case, I'm just not too happy with "jai". The way I understand it, it is used for sumti raising, i.e. extract an argument from a subordinate bridi in the x1 of a selbri and raise it to become the first argument of the selbri. Here you seem to use it to create an event out of a property?

mu'o mi'e xorxes
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