From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 31 17:07:27 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18em7y-0002zz-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:07:26 -0800 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:07:26 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Greetings, and commands Message-ID: <20030201010726.GI9156@digitalkingdom.org> References: <67E894BA4AB90F4781580985A5FAF32E16986E@rachael.letnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <67E894BA4AB90F4781580985A5FAF32E16986E@rachael.letnet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 34 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:15:03PM -0600, Bodeen, Gabe wrote: > >> What are the recommended ways to express 1st- and 3rd-person commands? > > >Can you give English examples of the kinds of commands you'd like to construct? > > "Let's go," or the ubiquitous "Vamonos" in Spanish are first person > commands. doi mi'o ko cliva or, more commonly, .ei mi'o cliva > As for third person commands, I've only seen them in English in the > 501 Verbs books, as "Let him go," which still isn't quite right. > > "ko curmi lenu mi'o klama .i ko curmi lenu zo'e klama" seem possible, > straight from the English. Yeah, thos'll work. > mi .e ko xe preti le se dikca xe preti is undefined. And why are you questioning electricity? 8) > .i mi caze'u troci lenu mi spuda mi vau .e'ecu'i .iku'i frili le nu spuda le drata prenu vau .e'u -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi