Subject: Re: [lojban] Imperative

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 01:11:50

la cein cusku di'e

>ko tavla fo la lojban.
>
>means "Speak in lojban!"
>
>but how do you say
>
>"Make the bird speak in lojban!"

A direct translation would be:

ko gasnu le nu le cipni cu tavla fo la lojban

But that is still a second person imperative. If what you
want is a more direct translation of, for example,
Spanish "¡Que el pájaro hable en lojban!", or Esperanto
"La birdo parolu lojxbane!", which in English might be
rendered as "May the bird speak in Lojban" or "Let the
bird speak in Lojban", then we can say:

ei le cipni cu tavla fo la lojban

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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