From pnewton@gmx.de Wed Apr 23 04:35:07 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:35:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postman.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.87]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 198IWo-0007QN-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:35:06 -0700 Received: from hamwpne1 (pc1-oxfd1-5-cust27.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [62.254.134.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor-online.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3NBZ2ps072067 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:35:03 +0200 (CEST) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:34:50 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A Newbie's First Impressions Message-ID: <3EA6967A.7137.1285B05@localhost> Priority: normal References: <20030422183719.62722.qmail@web13008.mail.yahoo.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 231 X-Approved-By: pnewton@gmx.de 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: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners la .ian. cu cusku di'e > Just think of the english names for > M=FCnchen, K=F6ln or M=F6nchengladbach. There's an English name for M=F6nchengladbach? I think there's one for Aachen (IIRC, English traditionally used the French name for that town), but I haven't heard one for M'gladbach. > So when you want to say "I will come by car" instead of saying "mi ba > klama zo'e zo'e zo'e le karce" you use fo to say "mi ba klama fo le > karce" and make things shorter and simpler. Or "mi ba klama xeka'a le karce". mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn.