Subject: Re: [lojban] Expressing purpose

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:10:40 -0500

On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, John Leuner wrote:
>How I do express purpose in lojban, I'm trying to translate this sentence:
>
>`Oh, you wicked little thing!' cried Alice, catching up the
>kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it
>was in disgrace. 
>
>I'm floundering at the "to make it understand".

Either {imu'ibo ko'e cu jimpe} (which asserts that the cat did understand) or
{mu'i lenu ko'e cu jimpe} (which doesn't).

phma