From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Feb 27 15:38:14 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:38:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AwrYc-0006fY-Q8 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:38:14 -0800 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:38:14 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20040227233813.GC1544@digitalkingdom.org> References: <1077917225.37F4121F@s5.dngr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1077917225.37F4121F@s5.dngr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 541 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, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:26:59PM -0600, Daniel E Huston wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 3:13pm, melissa@fastanimals.com wrote: > >On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Daniel E Huston wrote: > > > >re "mi dunda ma ko" > > > >> As a stage magician, this might be how I indicate to my volunteer > >> to pick a card from those spread in my hand. > > > >But why would you use "ma" instead of the term for a card? Does not > >"ma" request the hearer to fill in its meaning? > > > > Although Lojban allows one to phrase statements independent of > context-- so far-- as a stage magician I would still use context. Just for the record, those of us who have substantial conversation on the IRC channel use context. A *lot* of context. More than we do in English, I think, because there are less required things in a 'valid' sentence in Lojban (tense, for example). -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui