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fi'o jdima fe'u vecnu je'u ta mi With price, I certainly buy it. No, it doesn't cleanly translate into English, but I think it's not a stretch to imagine this becoming idiomatic.
That it doesn't cleanly translate into English doesn't bother
me at all, but I don't see why it would be a good idiom.
{bai vecnu je'u ta mi} means that I buy it under compulsion,
it does not mean that I buy it whoever forces me to do it.
> >fancu lo velvecnu le jei mi tervecnu kei nodada'o > >(My buying of it is orthogonal to its price) > But that doesn't say that I buy it. Eventually it might > mean that whether I buy it or not does not depend on > what the price is. Eventually?
Assuming {fancu} can be used that way. But that use doesn't
make a lot of sense to me.
You're right that it doesn't say that you'll buy it. How about: fancu ro velvecnu le jei mi tervecnu kei lipa For every price, the truth value of whether or not I buy it is unity.
The idea I think is essentially correct. The way you express it in Lojban to me makes very little sense. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com