From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Nov 02 11:50:16 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CP4fY-0006Zf-Oa for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:50:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:50:16 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "Two months later" Message-ID: <20041102195016.GL2858@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20041102175602.GF2858@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20041102184403.10391.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041102184403.10391.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 852 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, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:44:03AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > That's an *excellent* use of ji'e, though. > > It is? It seems extremely metaphorical to me. > > li papaci'e cu jimte lo nu mi se slabu lo valsi > > 11% is a limit/bound/extreme of my knowing words. That makes perfect sense to me, although I would phrase it differently: li pa pa ci'e cu jimte le se djuno be mi lo lojbo valsi > But {papace'i lo valsi}, "11% of the words" is much more > straightforward. Oh, ce'i is in PA. I thought it was in MOI. OK, so then {mi djuno pa pa ce'i lo valsi} works. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/