From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 21 12:47:42 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EIAZB-00018C-RR for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:47:41 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EIAZB-000184-K9 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:47:41 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:47:41 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: using ko with xamgu Message-ID: <20050921194741.GR2064@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <4331B3B6.8040903@handgranat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4331B3B6.8040903@handgranat.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2210 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:25:42PM +0200, Sunnan wrote: > Is using ko with xamgu controversial? I don't think it's come up. > For example, is {ko selxau lo ckafi} an acceptable way to say > "Enjoy your coffee"? No; that means "Make it so that you enjoy your coffee", whereas the English means "I hope you enjoy your coffee", which is something like ".a'o do nelci tu'a le ckafi". -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/