Subject: RE: [lojban] commands

From: Jay Kominek <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:47:34 -0600 (MDT)

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Craig wrote:

> But we still can't do constructions with it like 'let's go.' It's not a
> command to allow us to go, but rather a command directed at multiple people,
> including the speaker. Compare it less to 'allow us to go' and more to
> Spanish 'vamonos' which is in the imperative.

doi mi'o ko klama

doi assigns the value of do, and ko=do with a funny hat on, as I
understand it.

> >There are other catagories of cmavo available for experimentation, aren't
> >there? If so, at least use something that resembles the other relevent
> >pro-sumti. (ko'oi or something)
>
> xu'a would function like xu but making commands rather than questions, so it
> sounds like xu. But ko'oi works also.

xu'a makes slightly more sense, then.

However, it leaves who is supposed to do what, unspecified.

xu'a mi'a daxri do

^ Who am I commanding to what?

Is that, "Hold still so we can beat you!"?

or, "Everybody, kick his ass!"?

- Jay Kominek <[email-masked]>