From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Apr 11 18:51:47 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HboTS-0006aB-Tt for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:51:47 -0700 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.229]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HboTO-0006Zx-Uq for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:51:46 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 60so376042wri for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:51:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=l5kjeV6Q95xHK7RhrRcwcS6LW3YPqSuI3Cb4o1OZNrLoCz/DCCm3YotAvvT+EBHtDG3FiJFvMdWe4ajNnCeSVNgBBhSYBMNHzBxxbgnY0TyOeiL3NDNB5lx2/GkjsbP/4nIeI4U7vi6TliDkz4iq3krMOzSbn8x8YL2lVWMPa7M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ji6OIATG5EtPCsMiBL6Lmn7hxg5ddeN5J92fjsQdfhm9gA4asc+c33E3cQ3DjgVxXWHtGno3qTyGMo6kGycwhdhKdfPcb4EQ37diHvsnv9xPyLBLyMXDvZMFfsgK11inyWl9+pyKjtez2Q/7HiZO+tAiK8Fm+n+zev9iTosfo3g= Received: by 10.114.72.1 with SMTP id u1mr543538waa.1176342697934; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.109.5 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12d58c160704111851q16b55ccfm47148d15e2e17886@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:51:37 -0400 From: "komfo,amonan" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Now what? In-Reply-To: <437726.10208.qm@web88005.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_14778_2484107.1176342697878" References: <437726.10208.qm@web88005.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5063b7222634f962 X-Spam-Score: -2.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: -20 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4220 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: komfoamonan@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_14778_2484107.1176342697878 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 4/11/07, ANDREW PIEKARSKI wrote: > > So the typical sentences would be: > > - China is a country in Asia which.... > - The area of France is...... > - Canada is bordered by... > > [snip] > > As a general comment, I'm finding some of the answers difficult to > follow. Examples (complete sentences) would really help. Canada is bordered by the United States. lo kadnygu'e cu lamji lo mergu'e [my preference] la kadnygug. cu lamji la mergug. la kAnadas. cu lamji la .iunaityd. steits. la kadnygu'e cu lamji la mergu'e All of these are valid and understandable. Xorxes has already outlined the subtleties. It seems likely that over time a convention or conventions will arise. Compare: San Marino is surrounded by Italy. la sanmarinos. cu se sruri la .italias. There. That was easy ;~) mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan ------=_Part_14778_2484107.1176342697878 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 4/11/07, ANDREW PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
So the typical sentences would be:

- China is a country in Asia which....
- The area of France is......
- Canada is bordered by...

[snip]

As a general comment, I'm finding some of the answers difficult to follow.  Examples (complete sentences) would really help.

Canada is bordered by the United States.
lo kadnygu'e cu lamji lo mergu'e [my preference]
la kadnygug. cu lamji la mergug.
la kAnadas. cu lamji la .iunaityd. steits.
la kadnygu'e cu lamji la mergu'e

All of these are valid and understandable. Xorxes has already outlined the subtleties. It seems likely that over time a convention or conventions will arise. Compare:

San Marino is surrounded by Italy.
la sanmarinos. cu se sruri la .italias.

There. That was easy ;~)
mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan


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