From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Nov 22 09:48:56 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EecGF-0006Ai-DC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:48:55 -0800 Received: from dsl081-049-216.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.216] helo=pinfu.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.54) id 1EecG5-00066g-Oi for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:48:55 -0800 Received: from mx3.mail.ru ([194.67.23.149]) by pinfu.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EebLk-0001XV-I7 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:50:32 -0800 Received: from [212.17.3.19] (port=28720 helo=yanis.vpn.plhs) by mx3.mail.ru with esmtp id 1EebSY-000MhK-00 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:57:34 +0300 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:57:31 +0600 From: Yanis Batura X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1488445752.20051122225731@mail.ru> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] "I Go From Here" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------391BF23B37A30F83" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 2647 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: ybatura@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------------391BF23B37A30F83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Many cmavo in Lojban are used for conversion - sumti to selbri, selbri to modals and so on. {vi} is a tense and cannot perform as a standard sumti by itself. So I cannot say {*mi klama fi vi} for "I go from here". Is there a cmavo in Lojban converting {vi} in the way it can take place as a sumti? In other words, is there a "tense to sumti" conversion in Lojban? I'm interested in this question exclusively, not in how to say "I go from here" in Lojban by other means. Yanis Batura Happy Learner of Lojban ------------391BF23B37A30F83 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Many cmavo in Lojban are used for conversion - sumti to selbri, selbri to modals and so on.

{vi} is a tense and cannot perform as a standard sumti by itself.

So I cannot say {*mi klama fi vi} for "I go from here".


Is there a cmavo in Lojban converting {vi} in the way it can take place as a sumti?

In other words, is there a "tense to sumti" conversion in Lojban?


I'm interested in this question exclusively, not in how to say "I go from here" in Lojban by other means.



Yanis Batura

Happy Learner of Lojban

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