From philip.newton@gmail.com Fri Feb 25 03:20:59 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.206]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D4dWk-0001XB-DZ for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:20:58 -0800 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z35so1097793rne for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:20:57 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=gMrlPlhJQCqxa0HFkKciVbuQ+bCwbz9MIUTvUdaUnyHr8LuLVjPWWROVozj0NdxhlgN+ua/1fVG1xr0mTN3CHkyUIkxVPhYWLnSXNzVArd1+Ur2at3UouEi7H8YZLBvoDopzTMWMLSKA0ioPVohLG8EsYdi2+fz+LdW+HYg7Brk= Received: by 10.38.78.59 with SMTP id a59mr110061rnb; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.208.61 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:20:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <537d06d0050225032046d7f713@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:20:57 +0100 From: Philip Newton To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: .eosai ko viska le ckule jibri be mi In-Reply-To: <421EA747.80406@gulik.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII References: <421EA747.80406@gulik.co.nz> X-archive-position: 1172 X-Approved-By: philip.newton@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: philip.newton@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:19:19 +1300, Michael van der Gulik wrote: > mi ba'o cikre la skami be mi (I'm tweaking my computer) I think you want {le skami pe mi} (or, alternatively, {le mi skami}) here rather than {la skami be mi}; 1) I don't think you're using "computer" as a name, and 2) x2 of "skami" is the computer's purpose, rather than its owner. > le skami be mi cu spoja It exploded? Or were you looking for {spofu}? > mi jimpe fi skami (I understand something about computers) That needs a gadri after {fi} - I'll guess {lo}, so {mi jimpe fi lo skami}. > mi djuno le nu zo'e kau klama le zarci (I know WHO went to the store) I believe that {ma kau}, rather than {zo'e kau}, is what you wan there, and probably {le/lo du'u} rather than {le nu}: {mi djuno lodu'u makau klama le zarci}. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton