From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 31 00:39:09 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EWVC9-0004nR-As for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:39:09 -0800 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.195]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EWVC6-0004nI-AL for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:39:09 -0800 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h29so920332wxd for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:39:05 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BGVCS3bayUchA8XjLDh0KFTNgQeJMJYtD+/zwaRDYowHO+u6RDaeDopS+JS9AmrlWtYVDC6fK6GgcinKs6tr9E0Vkb74zsivXJAJnqMTVO7AkgVwdYu5KQFjUvs/LpFS+Wwr1mY08CkSLsKrnAEjSzyFObPcJ+NQ6G6IY2Gd89o= Received: by 10.65.212.14 with SMTP id o14mr71631qbq; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:39:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.204.15 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:39:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <26506d300510310039t72404823w@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:39:05 +0100 From: Thomas White To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Minor questions In-Reply-To: <925d17560510151547r17ff86c0pa3eaa4079facbd6f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <925d17560510151547r17ff86c0pa3eaa4079facbd6f@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) X-archive-position: 2432 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: winterwhite9257@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners coi rodo Bringing up an 'oldie' but I thought it neat: Nick Nicholas uses samclupa (skami clupa - computer-type-of-loop) for an equivalent concept of Internet... I would prefer la .internet. only because "this is the name we use to describe the thing" otherwise it would be lo samclupa wouldn't it? or even loi, or even lo'i. feedback much appreciated mu'omi'e .tomys. On 15/10/05, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On 10/15/05, Naomi K wrote: > > What is the lojban word for praise/congratulations? > > If what you want is to praise or congratulate someone, then you > could say ".i'e", "io", ".i'o" or some combination of them. > > The predicate "x1 praises/congratulates x2 for x3" is something > of a hole in the vocabulary. I haven't seen anything truly satisfactory > yet. Maybe something like "zarsi'a" from zanru sinma? > > > What is the word for 'Internet'? > > "la .internet." is often used. > > > There have been a few words that I have looked for that I didn't find an > > adequate word for. > > Yes, we don't really have a fully functional vocabulary yet. > > mu'o mi'e xorxes > > > >