Re: 'your will' as sumti

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>Except for the grammar points above, I think that's the best you're going
>to get with that choice of words.  I like Lee's suggestion to use {zukte}
>-- maybe even putting {do} in the x3 of zukte, if you want to stretch the
>logic a little bit.

tu'a do would likely be better for the x3 of zukte

>I think it must be a universal problem translating short quotes between
>languages, to keep make the translation both accurate and short.

Why not be equally pithy in a Lojbanic way.  Not knowing the exact denotation
of the original, something like
ko termu'i janai zukte
or
ko termu'i jo zukte
which implies that you do only what you will and nothing that you do not will.

lojbab
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