Received: from mail-vx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.220.189]:44193) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S9zv2-00008c-Ns; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:20:19 -0700 Received: by vcbfo11 with SMTP id fo11sf83230vcb.16 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:20:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=j5IIRRRDMx+zrM6wg8PqXvzjy7D+jW9TRVRcAoGN8lM=; b=EeTrM6DKscZUQ90J/uqZuGW95JDSoT3ofpk1NvDCPWLnGZ2K88TPVPJTLedEYnd8QI V1Gc6cPs60jaJSIw3aJdZ2GFFJSvCRpvo1gEXRbKzk4QPH1AXcRe3qN52+eOYwho5FAW S0o8bxC8NqHqbK4FZNW8kK99zf6JnrDopx2lk= Received: by 10.52.71.232 with SMTP id y8mr21118vdu.18.1332253184860; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.1.209 with SMTP id 17ls224942vcg.1.gmail; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.31.42 with SMTP id x10mr32540vdh.7.1332253184184; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by b18g2000vbz.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <24143939.1398.1332138901295.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynnk21> <19229634.6385.1332243517469.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynne2> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku} in speech ? From: ianek To: Lojban Beginners X-Original-Sender: janek37@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of janek37@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=janek37@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / An event of an event would be {lo nu nu ...} and I don't know what it would mean, too. Example: {lo nu bapli lo nu bebna lo nu bredi lo nu sipna}: An/The event of forcing someone to be stupid about being ready to sleep. Totally comprehensible. mu'o mi'e ianek On 20 Mar, 15:00, Jonathan Jones wrote: > I didn't actually do the experimenting to determine such a thing myself, = so > I really can't say exactly. > > However, your example is extremely contrived. I highly doubt that anyone > would talk about an event of an event of an event of an event in any > real-life situation, nor can I conceive of what such a thing is. I'm not > even sure of what an event of an event is, let alone the fourth iteration= . > (lodu'u broda losi'o brode lonu brodi , on the other hand, at least makes > some sort of coherent sense to me, however.) > > Also, vlasisku.lojban.org appears to be down. Someone not about to go to > sleep want to go on IRC and let Robin et al know? (It happens that while = I > know there are other NU, si'o du'u and nu are the only ones I remember of= f > the top of my head.) > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:15 AM, MorphemeAddict wrote= : > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, ianek wrote: > > >> On 20 Mar, 13:23, Jonathan Jones wrote: > >> > Well, in that case, I recommend cu, not ku. cu is actually easily > >> elidable, > >> > unlike ku. I believe we determined not long ago that in the worst ca= se, > >> it > >> > would take a maximum of three terminators in the absence of cu to > >> correctly > >> > terminate a grammatical structure, and rarely more than one. > > >> What a about {lo nu broda lo nu brode lo nu brodi lo nu brodo ku ku ku > >> ku brodu}? Jbofi'e says that it needs at least these four {ku} if we > >> want to avoid {cu}. > >> I like avoiding {cu}, but only when it doesn't require a string of > >> more than two terminators. > > > Maybe the original meant three *distinct* terminators. You've used only > > one, albeit four times. > > > stevo > > >> mu 'o mi'e ianek > > >> > cu is kind of like an optional half-.i, in that whereas .i implicitl= y > >> adds > >> > whatever terminators are required to end the previous sentence and > >> begin a > >> > new one, cu does the same, but only up the point of the selbri (, an= d > >> > please keep in mind that that is where my comparison ends- I doubt t= here > >> > are any other similarities between cu and .i). > > >> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:38 AM, gleki > >> wrote: > >> > > Well. We are preparing a textbook that will teach how to speak loj= ban. > >> > > But this textbook must use as few words as possible. > >> > > I wanna get rid of all words that can be replaced by other words. > > >> > > It's a textbook for newbies. So don't worry. It will be an > >> introduction to > >> > > Lojban. > > >> > > On Monday, March 19, 2012 10:49:14 AM UTC+4, stevo wrote: > > >> > >> Even if it is possible to eliminate {ku} in speech, why would you > >> want to? > > >> > >> stevo > > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:35 AM, gleki >> >wrote: > > >> > >>> Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku} in speech ? Can we > >> > >>> rearrange words in extreme cases and use other cmavo like {kei} = and > >> {cu} ? > > >> > >>> -- > >> > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog= le > >> > >>> Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. > >> > >>> To view this discussion on the web visithttps:// > >> groups.google.com/d/** > >> > >>> msg/lojban-beginners/-/**P3eUQjPdbJsJ< > >>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/P3eUQjPdbJsJ> > >> > >>> . > >> > >>> To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegrou= ps. > >> **com > >> > >>> . > >> > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > >>> lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com >> ibe@googlegroups.com> > >> > >>> . > >> > >>> For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/** > >> > >>> group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den< > >>http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den> > >> > >>> . > > >> > >> =A0-- > >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups > >> > > "Lojban Beginners" group. > >> > > To view this discussion on the web visit > >> > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/GaqDxupbMXQJ. > > >> > > To post to this group, send email to > >> lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > > lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > >> > > For more options, visit this group at > >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. > > >> > -- > >> > mu'o mi'e .aionys. > > >> > .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o > >> > (Come to the Dot Side! 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