Subject: Re: [lojban] Logical translation request

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:06:27 EST

In a message dated 12/7/2001 8:07:46 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> gasnu is "to make someone else do something".
> 
> I would ahve said "to bring it about that" which does not require another 
agent intermeidary (though it does suggest one); "agentive cause" sounds like 
doing something. But "the thing to do" does sound like "for me (or whoever) 
to do" and thus more like a direct act.

<caku le se zukte pu simlu le ka lojdra>

"Now the act seemed valid" I think the {ca} has got to be pinned down to 
something, and {lojdra} just doesn't fit at all (pace English -- Lord, the 
problems that always causes in Logic classes!)