From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 19 13:42:40 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GPmQS-0001SZ-A2 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:42:40 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GPmQS-0001SS-1g for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:42:40 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:42:40 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Assistance in studying Lojban required. Some-one who would like to converse in Lojban with newbie is wanted. Message-ID: <20060919204240.GD4617@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <6fdb45540609140827i21d95f5fue0e06f6ebdec385c@mail.gmail.com> <451054EA.7060900@bcpl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <451054EA.7060900@bcpl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3585 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 Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:36:58PM -0400, Michael Turniansky wrote: > > > Michael wrote: > > > > >.i mi cpedu lenu mi penmi le la lojban. tavla > > > > Does this parse properly Yes. > without a ku after lojban because "tavla" can't be part of a > cmevla sequence? (i.e. if we had said ".. le le lojbo tavla" that > wouldn't be grammatical, we'd need "le le lojbo ku tavla") Correct, but you can't have ".lojban. tavla" as anything but a cmene followed by a brivla; there's no way to merge those as written into one thing, the way "lojbo tavla" can be. -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/