From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 01 21:28:45 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 01 May 2007 21:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hj6SK-0004vE-VY for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 21:28:45 -0700 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 1Hj6SI-0004v0-2E for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 21:28:44 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D49CCEB01 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 00:28:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Cogito ergo sum Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 00:28:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705020028.22759.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4440 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 01 May 2007 23:02, Spencer Shepard wrote: > How would you say "I think, therefore I am" in Lojban? Looking up the > necessary words, I came up with < le nu mi zasti [vau] [kei] [ka] [vau]>>. Did I use these constructs > correctly and with the right words? Is there a simpler way? I also > tried to include *all* of the optional separators to make sure I am using > them correctly. s/ka/ku/. {ka} is an abstractor, not a terminator. {ka crino} means "greenness". You could also say {mi pensi .iseni'ibo mi zasti}. Pierre