From eye_onus@yahoo.com Wed Apr 30 10:03:17 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10903.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.131.39]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19AuzF-0006yT-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:03:17 -0700 Message-ID: <20030430170316.23119.qmail@web10903.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [132.178.215.45] by web10903.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:03:16 PDT Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:03:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon MacLeod Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: poi or noi? To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20030430051725.GO5687@miranda.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 281 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: eye_onus@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners > > Would .i ki'e ba lenu work? (As in 'Thanks before the event'?) > > "ki'e ba lenu" isn't valid. The "nu" requires a bridi after it. > Also, the "ba" and the "ki'e" don't connect in any way. The > best interpretation of that is "Thanks, future event of " How about .i le bavfau cu selckire ? ('The future event is receiving gratitude.' (jbofi'e didn't recgnize 'bavfau' which is the rafsi for bavli 'future' and fasnu 'event', and ckire's rafsi is unusable (unless there's one besides 'kir')), but otherwise it seems to work. Also, it seems ki'e is a rafsi for 'cushion', which definitely doesn't help.)) -Jon ===== "I have a brain, I've just lost my mind." -Ian McLeod -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GSC>$ d+(++) s++:-- a-- C++ UL P L>+++ !E W+(++) N++ o? K- !w--- O- M@ V? PS+++ PE- Y+ PGP- t+ !5 X(+) R+ !tv-- b+++ DI+ D+ G e* h* r-(%) y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com