From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Feb 03 16:47:20 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18frF9-0007SG-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:47:19 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:47:19 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Intonation of xu (was Re: (no subject)) Message-ID: <20030204004719.GD20552@digitalkingdom.org> References: <104.260f0093.2b6b37f3@aol.com> <200302041246.33680.sam@vilain.net> <20030203235252.GW20552@digitalkingdom.org> <200302041339.26152.sam@vilain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302041339.26152.sam@vilain.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 62 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 Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:39:26PM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:52, you wrote: > > > > > Does the result sound like Steve Wright? :-) > > > > Who's that? > > > A comedian known for his incredibly dry tone and matching humour. > > > Like, for instance; > > > mi ponse lo tolcitno minciska vi terdi. zo'e ciska ko le pinsi. > > > > I assume that's supposed to be two sentences. > > > > I have the oldest adding-writer in the world. Make it that > > something writes you on a pencil! > > Blast, back to the lojban lessons for me. I thought `minciska' might > be a good word for `typewriter'. And that last sentence is supposed > to be `it types in pencil'. The lessons don't teach a lot of vocabulary. From the lujvo list: batkyci'a:batke+ciska:to type:$ciska1 $ciska2 $ciska3 $ciska4 [$ciska4 is the keyboard] For the second sentence, try ri ciska sepi'o lo pinsi -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