From tim@desert.net Fri Dec 01 10:47:15 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: tim@mysql.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 1 Dec 2000 18:47:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 19802 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 18:47:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Dec 2000 18:47:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.hcisp.net) (208.60.89.18) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Dec 2000 19:48:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 15372 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 19:45:54 -0000 Received: from modem7.hcisp.net (HELO threads.polyesthetic.msg) (exim@208.60.89.73) by stargate.hcisp.net with SMTP; 1 Dec 2000 19:45:54 -0000 Received: from tim by threads.polyesthetic.msg with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 141vCT-0000Ok-00; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 13:46:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:46:25 -0500 To: Pierre Abbat Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: zoi gy. Good Morning! .gy. Message-ID: <20001201134625.D834@threads.polyesthetic.msg> References: <906fkk+mdub@eGroups.com> <20001130173654.B49957@threads.polyesthetic.msg> <00113018414807.20668@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00113018414807.20668@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:33:56PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Thimble Smith From: Thimble Smith On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:33:56PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Thimble Smith wrote: > >I know a culture where the standard greeting is "I de no?", > >["Are you?"]. The response is, "Mi de, o" ["I am, uh-huh"]. > >Then the first person says, "I ko aki no?" ["You came here?"], > >and the response is, "Mi ko aki". These phrases obviously aren't > >literal questions and answers. > > bau ma? .i mi sisku zoi xy. mi de ko aki .xy la gugl. i mi > fakci fi lo ponjo .e lo lojbo .e lo me madjar. > > co'omi'e pier. Sorry, Pier. I've only looked at lojban for a little bit, and haven't had the time to learn any vocabulary beyond le gerku cu batci la tim. :) I think you're saying you looked in google for that phrase and didn't find anything about it. It's a language spoken in Suriname, South America, called a Saamaka töngö (the saramacan language). The Saramacans were brought as slaves from Africa by the Dutch, and escaped into the jungles of Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana). The language is a mixture of dutch, english, some african languages, and portugese. I lived in Suriname for two years when I was in high school (16-17 years old), and learned a bit of the language. http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Suri.html#SRM Tim -- __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Tim Smith / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, Development Team /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Boone, NC USA <___/ www.mysql.com