From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 24 12:38:17 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HgQq8-0007k5-Kt for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:38:17 -0700 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.187]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HgQq2-0007ju-UL for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:38:16 -0700 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w8so2825847mue for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:38:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ukt4xIAaHd8BMFmOH9c5b8yEIGxiBWotznaFCIO7iS7U5KZDb5S9DmtixFY/EDRrycaU0X8GECD5/6z+CDsSG4D/USXXdCEO0zIqbDdPsccg1ARkgGfHXcCbx4rG36s8FKgJoBOP9WBUj+Don/kErIFnt+UWcRa3tH1XL+lsUeI= 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:references; b=udoVfX6ZKlvSgsKm9bbyTm6ljMAoN83BEk4ENSC6UEnQxCeeHeJVSGsdLSO4m1pIIf/bw6kXDFEyvabdxkA7koMixzeJUk9dd9G1qxtrZuNO9aF7/fDtm79REZ2xYroP8NrLB65esOKxUDbWEddO10zOy6BCxeRCJdWz6iECevA= Received: by 10.82.120.14 with SMTP id s14mr11555988buc.1177443487021; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.108.1 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:38:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <702226df0704241238m4d4d9bdbtbc5b112505ef3cab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:38:06 -0600 From: "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Constructive comments requested. In-Reply-To: <1177434166.462e3836d78e5@webmail.mail.rice.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_129809_5791233.1177443486506" References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7CB1@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> <200704241434.13303.colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> <702226df0704240840t17c660a6je98ea9a77488862e@mail.gmail.com> <1177434166.462e3836d78e5@webmail.mail.rice.edu> X-Spam-Score: -2.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: -20 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4411 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: eyeonus@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_129809_5791233.1177443486506 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Aha! A fellow fan! Let us journey towards Ogre-Fen-Ogre Fen and toss pineapples at any we may see! On 4/24/07, mls1@rice.edu wrote: > > If someone would translate anything by Piers Anthony into Lojban, I would > be > very, very pleased. > > Quoting "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" : > > > I read it, and I find your approach interesting, but I doubt it's an > > approach that will work for me. I'm not really big on the puzzle solving > > thing. > > > > Someone translate a book by Piers Anthony into Lojban and I'll give your > > method a good try. > > > > On 4/24/07, Colin Wright wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > mu'o mi'e .topy'at. > > > > .i.uenai ko klama le bende be denpa bu > > > > > > > > -- mu'o mi'e .topy'at. .i.uenai ko klama le bende be denpa bu ------=_Part_129809_5791233.1177443486506 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Aha! A fellow fan! Let us journey towards Ogre-Fen-Ogre Fen and toss pineapples at any we may see!

On 4/24/07, mls1@rice.edu <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:
If someone would translate anything by Piers Anthony into Lojban, I would be
very, very pleased.

Quoting "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" <eyeonus@gmail.com>:

> I read it, and I find your approach interesting, but I doubt it's an
> approach that will work for me. I'm not really big on the puzzle solving
> thing.
>
> Someone translate a book by Piers Anthony into Lojban and I'll give your
> method a good try.
>
> On 4/24/07, Colin Wright <colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> mu'o mi'e .topy'at.
>
> .i.uenai ko klama le bende be denpa bu
>








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