From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 21 06:39:36 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 21 May 2007 06:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq86o-0005PH-T4 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 06:39:35 -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 1Hq86k-0005P9-KT for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 06:39:33 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9258BCE743 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:37:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A0: the first words Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:36:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1179750886.465191e6b00bf@ssl0.ovh.net> In-Reply-To: <1179750886.465191e6b00bf@ssl0.ovh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705210936.57363.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: 5 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4570 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 Monday 21 May 2007 08:34, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've completed a list of words that I reckon most > important for a beginner to learn (no matter the > target language). Please find this list (some 150 > words and phrases) in the attached HTML file. > > I would appreciate if someone could check the > Lojban equivalents I've come up with. There are > also a few words that I have not been able > to translate into Lojban myself: for instance > the words "neighbo(u)r", "later", "today" and > "straight ahead". Any help with these is very > welcome, too. For "neighbor", how about "xabjbi"? "dandu" is "hang", not "hand", which is "xance". "today" is "ca le cabdei". For "What's your name?" you can say "doi mo?" or "ma cmene do?". "radio" is "velcradi". "lamp" is "tergu'i", which does not imply electric. For directions, you probably want to use spatial tense words. phma