From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 18 08:16:34 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E5m8A-0003fL-6m for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:16:34 -0700 Received: from hive.cec.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.14]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1E5m84-0003fD-Jz for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:16:34 -0700 Received: from hive.cec.wustl.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hive.cec.wustl.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7IFGRgE016786; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:16:27 -0500 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by hive.cec.wustl.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id j7IFGQw3016783; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:16:27 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: hive.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:16:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: web comics translated into Lojban In-Reply-To: <925d1756050817165763af7123@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <5ccdc7530508120938724eccf2@mail.gmail.com> <200508130340.j7D3eiTd013068@mole.e-mol.com> <42FDE2E5.7000308@handgranat.org> <200508171850.j7HIoklc022184@mole.e-mol.com> <925d1756050817165763af7123@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-58716651-2103194727-1124378186=:16237" X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1775 X-Approved-By: adam@pubcrawler.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: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---58716651-2103194727-1124378186=:16237 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by hive.cec.wustl.edu id j7IFGRgE016786 On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > On 8/17/05, Matt Arnold wrote: >> http://www.nemorathwald.com/pbflojban/pbflojban.htm > > "doi patfu .i pe'u ko ba catlu ni'a le mi ckana se ga'a [lo] pacycrida" > > {pe'u} is a vocative, so it will absorb the {ko}. You could just say: > {pe'u patfu ko catlu ...} > > But {ni'a le mi ckana} would seem to say that the event of looking > will occur under the bed. The father doesn't really need to go under > the bed to look there. I'm not sure about {se ga'a} either. I would > suggest something like: > > {pe'u patfu ko cipcta lo cnita be le mi ckana lo ka lo pacycrida cu zva= ti} > > Or shorter: {pe'u patfu ko cipcta le ckana cnita tu'a lo pacycrida} > > Where: cipcta =3D "x1 examines/checks x2 for property x3" Just because I enjoy playing with these things, how would this work? {pe'u patfu ko sisku lo ka pacycrida kei le'i cnita be le ckana be fi mi} Please, father, search among what is under my bed for things with the property of monsterhood. --=20 Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you= are. -- Colonel Adolphus Busch ---58716651-2103194727-1124378186=:16237--