From adamgarrigus@gmail.com Wed Feb 09 06:58:03 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:58:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.204]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CytI3-0005Vz-Lo for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:58:03 -0800 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so1292255wra for ; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:57:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pbDbZcnDvB4hLEAeBfYm2MPKjFPKJLIpziaIZQxuHbqJ+JGG67x2HER/ACULWf+nT9xX5yaTdXHPGAbW2nEz3dFUq+ZMX1olXBnhU+J0Zjx2ceJduFq04w2AA9E+MfuZDN5lv+l/yxG1dI1ImAAo5deyflwz4ZFXNKuhgn23bSw= Received: by 10.54.30.26 with SMTP id d26mr20222wrd; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.35.48 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 06:57:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <12d58c16050209065714783b4c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:57:31 -0500 From: Adam COOPER To: Lojban beginners list Subject: [lojban-beginners] "I understand Lojban" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 1123 X-Approved-By: adamgarrigus@gmail.com 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: adamgarrigus@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners I understand Lojban. {mi jimpe fi lo jbobau} - doesn't quite seem to cut it, as it could just as well mean that the speaker understands the ideas behind Lojban, how it was devised, its history, (x3 = subject) without necessarily understanding what's being said. So... {mi jimpe ca lo nu lo jbobau cu ve tavla} - "I understand when Lojban is being spoken" ??? .e'o ko sidju mi .i ki'e rodo .i fe'o mi'e .adam.