From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 07 07:15:47 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HEoWQ-0002Ih-W5 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:15:47 -0800 Received: from mclmx2.mail.saic.com ([149.8.64.32]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HEoWL-0002IV-7G for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:15:46 -0800 Received: from 0015-its-ieg01.mail.saic.com ([149.8.64.21] [149.8.64.21]) by mclmx2.mail.saic.com for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:15:30 -0500 Received: from 0015-ITS-EXBH01.us.saic.com ([10.43.229.18]) by 0015-its-ieg01.mail.saic.com (SMSSMTP 4.0.5.66) with SMTP id M2007020710153012065 for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:15:30 -0500 Received: from 0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com ([10.75.0.188]) by 0015-ITS-EXBH01.us.saic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:15:14 -0500 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C74ACA.C45D9EC9" Subject: [lojban-beginners] x2 of cusku question Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:15:14 -0500 Message-Id: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7B7C@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: x2 of cusku question Thread-Index: AcdKysRjjz7IrJAqSt2E4k/GM6CHwQ== From: "Turniansky, Michael" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2007 15:15:14.0804 (UTC) FILETIME=[C4BEDB40:01C74ACA] X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4023 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C74ACA.C45D9EC9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is the following sentence proper (from the Frankenstein movie that was on this morning)? In particular, I'm wondering about the x2 place of cusku: =20 do puzi cusku le du'u tu'a mi fenki ("Just a moment ago you said I was crazy...") =20 Does the x2 argument always have to be a literal string, or can it be a topic? And if I am incorrect, how should this utterance be reformulated? uanai, --gejyspa =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C74ACA.C45D9EC9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Is the following sentence proper (from the Frankenstein movie that was on this morning)? In particular, = I’m wondering about the x2 place of cusku:

do puzi cusku le du’u tu’a mi fenki = (“Just a moment ago you said I was = crazy…”)

Does the x2 argument always have to be a literal = string, or can it be a topic? And if I am incorrect, how should this = utterance be reformulated?

= uanai,

= --gejyspa

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