From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 24 06:35:49 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HgLBA-0002oI-KY for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:35:47 -0700 Received: from anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.86]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HgLA8-0002nC-9r for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:35:08 -0700 Received: from mailgate.denbridgemarine.com ([83.104.25.50]) by anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1HgL9t-000NDo-Kc; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:34:18 +0000 Received: from strontium.elements (support.denbridgemarine.com [83.104.25.51]) (using SSLv3 with cipher EXP1024-RC4-SHA (56/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mailgate.denbridgemarine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1535087E; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:34:14 +0100 (BST) From: Colin Wright Organization: Denbridge Marine Ltd To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Constructive comments requested. Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:34:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7CB1@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> In-Reply-To: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7CB1@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> Cc: lojban@solipsys.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704241434.13303.colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4403 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Some time ago I wrote: > ... I was wondering if anyone here would care to comment on: > > http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LojbanLanguage.html?LJ_BL Turniansky, Michael replied : > Just a quick comment that your first five sample sentences > have a superfluous "cu". I've been thinking more about this comment. The English translations are, of course, "tensed", and hence inaccurate. For the sake of an introductory puzzle, what do people think of replacing the "cu" with "ca" in the first six cases? Explaining about tense being optional, and "cu" being elidable, could then wait, and perhaps be the subject of a subsequent puzzle page. I also invite people here to comment - constructively - on this page: > http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LearningLanguages.html?LJ_BL Again, please be diplomatic. Thanks. -- Dr C.D.Wright, Director of Innovation and Engineering Denbridge Marine Limited, Cammell Lairds Waterfront Park, Campbeltown Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, CH41 9HP. Tel: +44 (0)151 649 4080 Fax: +44 (0)870 051 8953 Mob: +44 (0)7980 57 22 96