From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 03 14:33:36 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GUrtQ-0003gc-8i for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:33:36 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GUrtQ-0003gV-0F for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:33:36 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:33:35 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lightbulb Message-ID: <20061003213335.GG493@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <241e6b720610031415y33825031yd2ead1d89dc98c8d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <241e6b720610031415y33825031yd2ead1d89dc98c8d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3605 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, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:15:33PM -0400, Daniel Adamec wrote: > What {sumti tcita} would be used for 'because' in a response to > the query "why is the light bulb bright?". (apologies for the > simplicity of the sentence). .i ri'a bo le jinme cu glare > I had thought {ri'a} because there are several physical causes > (the switch being moved to the 'on' position, . .i ri'a bo mi pilno le vraga > the electricity moving through the filament, etc.). .i ri'a bo le jinme cu se dikca -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/