Subject: Re: [lojban] hope

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:15:14 EDT

In a message dated 6/15/2001 8:19:18 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> i wonder if future
> lojbanists will end up using "pacna ledu'u" exclusively for this
> sort of optative statement....
> 

Hopefully not (ah, what would that be in Lojban?) since that is clearly only 
descriptive :"I have a hope that...." not the expression of a hope, as an 
optative "O would that..." (somebody's Latin 1 book).