From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 24 11:19:31 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H9ned-00010U-3N for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:19:31 -0800 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H9neV-00010J-1W for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:19:30 -0800 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1283491nfb for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:19:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=flHglk0XksAqBIvgvsOi0zA91rxLWiXVsIULTnGemul9tXk9SmeIh7Zqh3IUecGHf4q49TcGpnyaDKvLUyaP2j4q+allU38dMvFVnmHG5who/TzL/LDNIiRPbhhiRIFw9jX8w2uKcidk9RLkQzmQC8RoiL9/tAXb/OZrpLG+2DE= Received: by 10.49.55.13 with SMTP id h13mr3323047nfk.1169666360844; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.9.8 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:19:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560701241119y5f094855s60032e973a195c8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:19:20 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A beautiful metaphor In-Reply-To: <774647.86751.qm@web57906.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4021D41AD@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> <774647.86751.qm@web57906.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 3955 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 1/20/07, Nick Bornak wrote: > > .ipaunai xu lo djica be tu'a lo grute cu na citka lo > rutrceraso .a lo perli .a lo vanjba ki'u lo du'u vo'i > gu'e rutrceraso ja perli ja vanjba ginai grute > > "Would anyone, who wished for fruit, reject cherries, > pears, and grapes on the ground they were cherries, > pears, or grapes, and not fruit? You want {na'e} rather than {na} there: "(doesn't eat) because". With {na} you get "doesn't (eat because)". Also, probably {fa'u} is better than {.a}/{ja}. And {vo'e} instead of {vo'i}. mu'o mi'e xorxes