From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 01 06:44:16 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FESYq-0006S5-Dg for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:44:16 -0800 Received: from marsha.pcisys.net ([216.229.32.146]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FESYn-0006Rx-PO for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:44:16 -0800 Received: from [192.168.1.103] (cwap-206-53-21-92.cos.pcisys.net [206.53.21.92]) (authenticated bits=0) by marsha.pcisys.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k21EiB2Y021620 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:44:12 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4405B22C.7040903@pcisys.net> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:39:40 -0700 From: Stephen Simmons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041221 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: cusku balvi References: <440415BB.3030706@pcisys.net> <200602282244.43965.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <200602282244.43965.phma@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3082 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ssimmons@pcisys.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Pierre Abbat wrote: >On Tuesday 28 February 2006 06:19, Stephen Simmons wrote: > > >>coi rodo >> >>i mi troci le nu skicu zoi gy simulation gy noi ke'a vasru le nu zoi gy >>predicting gy le morna tarti be fa le minji i xu lu cusku balvi li'u cu >>smuni zoi gy predicting gy >> >>i mi te simlu le zo balvi cu se cfila stura tepi'o >> >>[In case my lojban is unclear: how does one express the idea of >>predicting the future in lojban? cusku balvi is the best tanru I could >>come up with, but it doesn't have the right place structure; for that >>matter, how does one express place structure in lojban?] >> >> > >I think that {xusra} makes more sense than {cusku}. > > I had not thought of this; yes, it does make more sense. And rather than cusku balvi, then, perhaps balvi xusra solves the sumti stura problem and also removes the idea of verbal communication that cusku has. --Stephen Simmons >phma > > > > > >