From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 07 08:41:01 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DJZ7t-00015E-SC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:41:01 -0700 Received: from pm-mx6.mgn.net ([195.46.220.208] helo=pm-mx6.mx.noos.fr) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DJZ7k-00014p-WA for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:41:01 -0700 Received: from m148.net81-67-70.noos.fr (m148.net81-67-70.noos.fr [81.67.70.148]) by pm-mx6.mx.noos.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7E1269A5 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 17:40:21 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 17:40:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Yann Le Du X-X-Sender: yann@neuron.noos.fr To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Simple Lojban email conversation, anyone interested in taking part ? In-Reply-To: <20050406233156.GB2746@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: References: <20050406233156.GB2746@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1355 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: yann.ledu@noos.fr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Yann Le Du wrote: >> Let's try to have a nice simple bilingual conversation, i.e. we >> give the lojban and (litteral) english versions of everything we >> say, which we'll try to keep short, so as not to get discouraged. > > I immediately thought of http://www.gwaihir.org/fun/school.english > > :-) .u'isai I've started a cleaned transcript of the conversation there : http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/YannLeDu/lojban_conversation.html I hope many will contribute ! > .uu xu do ponse lo karce > > [sympathy] Do you have a car? > > go'i .i ku'i mi nelci lo nu se sorprekarce kei mu'i lo nu mi kakne > lo nu tcidu > > Yes, but I like being a bus passenger because I can read. > > > I assume that the x2 of sorprekarce, which I am being lazy and not > putting in jbovlaste, would be the same as the x2 of karce. I used http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php and it says "car engine". So how can we write "bus passenger" ? -- mu'o mi'e .ian.xek.