du ra'o Posted by PierreAbbat on Fri 19 of Sep, 2008 14:26 GMT posts: 324 Use this thread to discuss the du ra'o page.
Posted by PierreAbbat on Fri 19 of Sep, 2008 14:26 GMT posts: 324 I thought of a possible use for {du ra'o}: {mi du ra'o da'i do .ibo mi na gasnu ta}. How does that sound for "If I were you, I wouldn't do that"? We still have to figure out what {co'e ra'o} means... Pierre To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
Posted by Anonymous on Fri 19 of Sep, 2008 14:48 GMT On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote: > I thought of a possible use for {du ra'o}: {mi du ra'o da'i do .ibo mi na > gasnu ta}. How does that sound for "If I were you, I wouldn't do that"? How would we distinguish it from "If you were me"? Or for that matter, "if we were the same person"? I think "If I were you" is "va'o lo nu da'i mi me do", where "do" is predicated of "mi". > We still have to figure out what {co'e ra'o} means... "Mutatis mutandis"? mu'o mi'e xorxes To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
