From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 26 11:38:31 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:38:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ctszn-0003Mo-IR for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:38:31 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:38:31 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: 'pro-sumti' Message-ID: <20050126193831.GS20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1058 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 Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:56:43AM -0400, Betsemes wrote: > The word "pro-sumti" sounds to me like a mix of English and Lojban > (pro, English; and sumti, Lojban). Yup. > Is "pro-sumti" the way it is said within a Lojban text? No; is Lojban text it's {lo cmavo be zo ko'a}, generally. I suppose you could say it other ways, like {lo cmavo poi basti lo sumti}. -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/