From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 06 07:07:47 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HObGJ-0007Nq-2T for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:07:40 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HObG7-0007NV-Nj for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:07:30 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA15CE741 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:07:02 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Gmail sucks; I moan in Lojban Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:06:54 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <23dc8c770703060131v4df0b383v74e4146e0cd3e93e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23dc8c770703060131v4df0b383v74e4146e0cd3e93e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703061006.55133.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4112 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tuesday 06 March 2007 04:31, Karl Naylor wrote: > Was just trying to express this to myself in Lojban this morning, and > wondered how well I was doing. > > .i la djimeil. co'u jorcu le ciska barna .iseri'abo mi ka'e ciska > gi'enai .oiro'e na ka'e viska djuno ledu'u vi mokau cu ciska > > In particular I'm lamenting my lack of knowledge of computery words > like "typing" (for now I'm using {ciska}), and wondering whether > {ri'a} is applicable here, but any other comments would be welcome :) jorcu ki'a? You have a double negative {gi'enai na ka'e}. Is that what you mean? For typing you can say {batkyci'a}, "write by pressing buttons". phma