From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Sep 08 03:30:22 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EDJfi-0006vq-7U for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:30:22 -0700 Received: from mxsrv1.tranzpeer.net ([202.180.66.214]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1EDJfc-0006vi-4a for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:30:22 -0700 Received: from [203.184.12.185] (helo=gulik.co.nz) by mxsrv1.tranzpeer.net with ESMTP (Exim 4.34) id 1EDJfM-00068Q-EZ for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:30:05 +1200 Message-ID: <432012C6.3040102@gulik.co.nz> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:30:30 +1200 From: Michael van der Gulik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040216 Debian/1.6.x.1-10 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: What's up? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2020 X-Approved-By: mikevdg@gulik.co.nz 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: mikevdg@gulik.co.nz Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Newton, Philip wrote: >la cuncuxnas. cu cusku di'e > > >>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. 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 what you think. >> >> > >If you like {ma mo ma}, I suggest you have a look at >http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=What+Does+It+Mean%3F and look >for {.i pei xu cu'e xo ma mo} (without the braces) .u'i > > > xu ro da ro de zo'u ma poi da mo ma poi de gi'anai da du de ? mi'e .maik (p.s. In English incase I got it wrong: must those "ma"s refer to the same thing? I mean, would "ma mo ma" refer to "tell me a brivla and x1 and x2 of that brivla where x1 and x2 are equal"?)