I dont think 2) is correct at all. It states that I go, no command towards me is present.
.ieru'e je'a gendra gi'u smudra
.u'esai xaugensku Most of my understanding of Lojban is an exercise in the execution of book knowledge. My activity here over the past few days comprises my only experience thus far of Lojban "in the wild" where people actually use it to express themselves. I find it surprising at times. Especially in cases like the above phrase, which would be a mouthful bau la gleki.
3) Use the experimental {ko'oi} such that {zo ko du lu do ko'oi li'u}
4) Assign {ko} as though it were an assignable sumka'i using {goi}
mi ckire fo lo rodo sidju
na gendra. To nitpick, you wanted {fi}, and I think you dropped a {nu}.
.u'i .i mi ckire do lo mu'e do drani fi lo mi cusku Please, nitpick away. That's half my reason I came out of my lojbanic ivory tower. Learning is all about trial and error. Which means to learn, I must try, and I must err. If I don't see my error, then my trying will have been wasted. So again, thanks!
I tend to prefer #1. I don't recall reading that {ko} works as an assignable sumka'i, so I hesitate to use 4).
Searching at
alexburka.com/~danr I find 5 uses of {ko goi}, all on IRC, but 2 of them are nonsense and the other 3 are queries to the parser-bot. There are 4 results for {goi ko}, all of which are real sentences, for example {lo gerku goi ko bajra}. So, the usage parses, and was said at least once on the Internet, but yes it's a strange and rare production. Probably {doi gerku ko bajra} is more readily understood (and shorter!).
I'm still learning the language, and I'm teaching my wife and 4 and 7 year-old sons,
.ue .iosai
so as a personal preference I'm avoiding the use of experimental valsi until we all have a better command of the language, so 3)'s out. Logical connection looks like a good solution and adds the flexability of connectives to imperatives {ko .u mi nitcu klama caku} (heh. ma xe fanva zoi .gy. save yourself! .gy. la lojban).
{.iicai ko nurxru ko}
zo nurxru .u'e Again, a connection I wouldn't have made with my current command of the lojbanic vocabulary. Schweet.
Thanks again for the help! This is just what I need!