From taral@taral.net Mon Aug 07 10:59:01 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21401 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2000 17:59:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Aug 2000 17:59:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO augustus.webxess.com) (208.227.102.15) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Aug 2000 17:59:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 13196 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2000 17:58:58 -0000 Received: from localhost.uu.net (HELO taral.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.uu.net with SMTP; 7 Aug 2000 17:58:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:58:51 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Questions To: lojban@lojban.org Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000807122616.00ae3cf0@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII From: Taral (Oops, I thought I had sent it to the list) On 7 Aug, Logical Language Group wrote: > At 11:02 AM 08/07/2000 -0500, Taral wrote: > > > Question 1: How does one translate "how old are you?" into lojban? There > > is no pure age relation in the gismu. > > Probably several ways. One is: > > le do nunjmive cu nanca xo > or more colloquially > xo selna'a do > > Also > xo ni do tolcitno > > > Question 2: How does one express "here" (as in the current location) as a > > sumti? > > ti (without actually pointing at anything, or pointing at the ground) But is that a sumti? > or to be long winded, levi stuzi > > Asking the list might get you some other possibilities. > > lojbab Taral