From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 07 14:25:38 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ED7QI-00038J-G5 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:25:38 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.198]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ED7QD-00038A-Rg for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:25:38 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so1348004wra for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:25:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=DQUTe2QKScAekMgCdhY7TfNmhaxH03StAhDpgxp8yWHbMjQP9Oar4KcXWbCYrWGkuHpouh4mL/1TrAKliICTzECjoAmU7Zy3B5l+edyt39nFYk4FoO/IB45glV9hZFI91dyaBN+4g/1JJPrS4BrgL3XHEGRFR9HSgHz1M+hjDkM= Received: by 10.54.56.56 with SMTP id e56mr5917242wra; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.118.16 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5ccdc75305090714255880b991@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:25:30 -0400 From: "la cuncuxnas." To: Lojban list Subject: [lojban-beginners] What's up? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_23665_7762315.1126128330323" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 2012 X-Approved-By: thatskotkid@gmail.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: thatskotkid@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_23665_7762315.1126128330323 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline coi rodo Something just occurred to me about Lojban's variegated question words. I= =20 mean, I've thought about it for some time, but a possible use for what I've= =20 been thinking of just struck me. Anyway. Ever since I read the Lojban for= =20 Beginners lesson on question words, {ma mo ma} has been in my head, just=20 kind of floating around. The only use I could think of for it was a general= =20 "HUH?!?" kind of expression. But it just occurred to me that that'd be a=20 great way to say, "What's up?" "What's going on?" and the like. Does anyone= =20 out there agree? Can you think of any other uses for {ma mo ma}, or other= =20 ways to say "How goes it?" I'll be glad to hear what you think. mu'omi'e cuncuxnas. ------=_Part_23665_7762315.1126128330323 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline coi rodo

Something just occurred to me about Lojban's variegated question words.  I mean, I've thought about it for some time, but a possible use for what I've been thinking of just struck me.  Anyway.  Ever since I read the Lojban for Beginners lesson on question words, {ma mo ma} has been in my head, just kind of floating around.  The only use I could think of for it was a general "HUH?!?" kind of expression.  But it just occurred to me that that'd be a great way to say, "What's up?" "What's going on?" and the like.&n= bsp; Does anyone out there agree?  Can you think of any other uses for {ma mo ma}, or other ways to say "How goes it?"  I'll be glad to hear wh= at you think.

mu'omi'e cuncuxnas.
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