From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 06 15:36:20 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:36:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ev188-00078Z-Ef for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:36:20 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ev188-00078S-4b for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:36:20 -0800 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:36:20 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Heath is the Man!. Message-ID: <20060106233620.GL4710@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20060106233231.GA9015@manticore.csupomona.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060106233231.GA9015@manticore.csupomona.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2904 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:32:31PM -0800, Heath N. Caldwell wrote: > How would I say that Heath is the man? > > {la xit. mintu le pa nanmu} ? For myself, I'd say "doi .xit. .io sai". However, ignoring the semantices of the sentence, that translation works, yes. -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/