BPFK Pages: Attitudinal Modifiers

[Gleki Arxokuna]

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Section%3A+Attitudinal+Modifiers

.i lo rectu be ko ku se canlu le briju vau ga'i nai

Get your meat right into my office, you maggot.

According to Wiktionary "maggot" is a term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.

Was {ga'i} meant here instead?

[Gleki Arxokuna]

ri'e = ... Used to express release of emotion

I think "emotion" is a wrong word here. {ri'e} can be applied not only to {ro'i}.

May be "attitude" should be better here.

[Ilmen]

I would interpret this sentence to mean «I humbly command you that your
flesh occupies all the office's volume/space», which sounds rather silly.

The English version of the sentence would have been better rendered as
{lo rectu be ko ga'i cu zvati lo mi briju} or {ko'oi lo rectu be do ga'i
cu zvati lo mi briju}.

mi'e la .ilmen. mu'o

[Alex Burka]

Yeah, looks like a mistake. It should be {ga'i}.

mu'o mi'e la durkavore

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