From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 31 10:15:19 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HCJzK-00077V-KP for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:15:19 -0800 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HCJzF-00077N-8y for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:15:18 -0800 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1145698nfb for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:15:11 -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=GZVyNNSW3WGUVgctgxU1oYBlSsCIP5wLSEOO1VtVeeIbuT7I7tIPWUO3jVOMXk66UNittPvzIRpbwf1CSUwgIMYEOwHdl0kzSMKqPFmBXA2eFLV5rESANgZXk3Xwno0TGNk13+7euy36GTSTqYBah6uFvS6sxAU9N2VLn1PI/BY= Received: by 10.48.216.8 with SMTP id o8mr2899335nfg.1170267311383; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:15:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.9.12 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:15:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560701311015l67fcaa15pd11fb488515e60fd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:15:11 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: POM: Give him one! In-Reply-To: <200701301832.28230.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <040B18B6-711D-40FF-A9BD-8EE0D8C53FF8@mindspring.com> <200701301832.28230.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 3974 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 1/30/07, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:22, Cortesi wrote: > > > no xunpre ka'e du'i plipe > > {ka'e du'i plipe} is ungrammatical. {ka'e plipe du'i} or {du'iku ka'e plipe}. Actually, {ka'e du'i plipe} is equivalent to {ka'e ku du'i plipe}. The rules for compound tags are quite weird, but since {ku} is elidable after a tag, they can usually be ignored. > > {mi ckire la noras} for that difficult sentence; I had no idea how to > > say "jumps so" == "can jump like that." All the pro-sumti refer back > > to something that was said; here we want to refer to something seen > > but not (yet) uttered. Makes you respect the terseness of English... > > You could also use {tai}. Yes, that's what I would use for "so", "thus". mu'o mi'e xorxes