From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sat Jun 17 04:09:33 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7066 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2000 11:09:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Jun 2000 11:09:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jj.egroups.com) (10.1.10.91) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Jun 2000 11:09:32 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.30] by jj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 17 Jun 2000 11:09:31 -0000 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:09:27 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: still pondering on le/lei/la/lai... Message-ID: <8ifm97+sv2k@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <7b.586e629.267bebcf@aol.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 829 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" --- In lojban@egroups.com, pycyn@a... wrote: > In a message dated 00-06-16 14:52:03 EDT, aulun writes: > > << Is this true? > lai nanmu pu finti la fegboixa'e. > >> > "The mass of things called nanmu invented the thing called fegboixa'e" , > maybe > "Men invented angry ball hand" but both names take on odd meanings here > (assuming that "fegboixa'e" has a meaning I recognize -- boxing glove?). In > any case, assuming that fegboixa'e is some real thing, I suppose that the > inventors were what we would call men, unless they are what we would call > women. There aren't a lot of alternatives. la multadpre.fegboixa'e cu cukta .i zo nanmu cu cmene loi dotco lispra (multadpre=skepre, fegboixa'e=fist/Faust/.ioxanes.faustus.) Once again: la multadpre.fegboixa'e se pu finti lai nanmu Is this true? .aulun. ;-)