From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 10 13:08:09 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:08:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1D9Ut7-0003wm-5o for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:08:09 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1D9Ut7-0003wh-3H for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:08:09 -0800 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:08:09 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Mr. Data Message-ID: <20050310210809.GM3265@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20050310164648.65243.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> <200503101733.j2AHXTTd005951@mole.e-mol.com> <537d06d005031009534bfb9f0d@mail.gmail.com> <20050310195614.GI3265@chain.digitalkingdom.org> 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: 1234 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 Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:54:18PM -0400, Betsemes wrote: > > Full agreement. In the case of "Mr. Data", I would use "la > > datni.......... > > la datni?????? I've read that "la" is for cmene while "datni" is > not a cmene. Am I missing something? Yes. "la" can go in front of cmene or any brivla; in the latter case it turns the brivla into a name; "the thing named Data" in this case. -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/