From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 19 20:22:08 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv59s-0004d9-LJ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:22:08 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.44] helo=ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv59o-0004cw-KG for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:22:08 -0700 Received: from hypermetrics.com (cpe-66-68-164-156.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.164.156]) by ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j6K3M0Rh010953 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:22:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42DDC358.5010302@hypermetrics.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:22:00 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] A few questions... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1599 X-Approved-By: hal9000@hypermetrics.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: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Just a few random questions. 1. Apparently people say {mi'e xal.} and not {mi'e la xal.} -- is that just because "la" is understood and can be dropped? Do we ever omit it otherwise? 2. I can't find names for the planets. Surely we have them? When I was a kid (at an old-fashioned school using old- fashioned textbooks), stress was laid on the art of diagramming sentences. It was thought to be a useful tool in explaining English grammar. Most people thought of it as a cruel form of punishment, but I secretly ate it up. (This is where conlangers come from.) I thought it *really* clarified the way sentences and grammar worked. So... 3. Has anyone ever thought about coming up with a system for diagramming Lojban utterances? Or would anyone be interested? la xal.