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On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:04:46PM -0500, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> 
> la Adam COOPER fo le samxa'a cusku fe di'e
> 
> > {pitr.bret.} 'r' can be syllabic in Lojban as it is in Serb
> > ("Srpski"). Also, "i" is pronounced as in "machine", while "e"
> > is pronounced as in "get".
> 
> Slip of the brain - I'm new to this lark.  I'm not even sure if
> I've got the above {bridi} right. .a'o

You need a "cu" before "cusku".  Other than that, I think it's fine,
although we usually use "samymri" for sending e-mail.

> I'm having real trouble working out how to say, "I live in
> Cambridge".  I imagine it would be one of:
> 
> .(home) pe mi nenri la .keimbridj.

le zdani be mi cu nenri la .keimbridj.

> .mi (inhabits) .keimbridj.

mi xabju la .keimbridj.

> But every query ("house", "home", "resident", "inhabit") to the
> dictionary brings up... Lojban must have a word for "the empty
> set",  I probably just haven't got that far yet. .u'i

no da

:-)

Yeah, there are a lot of keywords missing for the gismu in jbovlaste
(I'm assuming that is what you were using).  I should probably fix
that, in my copious free time.

-Robin

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