From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jun 15 10:02:44 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HzFBz-0005q2-UW for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0700 Received: from 25.mail-out.ovh.net ([213.186.37.103]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HzFBp-0005gM-W9 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:02:33 -0700 Received: (qmail 31956 invoked by uid 503); 15 Jun 2007 17:02:44 -0000 Received: (QMFILT: 1.0); 15 Jun 2007 17:02:44 -0000 Received: from b7.ovh.net (HELO mail37.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.57) by 25.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 15 Jun 2007 17:02:44 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 15 Jun 2007 17:02:25 -0000 Received: from 222.9-225-89.dsl.completel.net (222.9-225-89.dsl.completel.net [89.225.9.222]) by ssl0.ovh.net (IMP) with HTTP for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:02:25 +0200 Message-ID: <1181926945.4672c6219a4d0@ssl0.ovh.net> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:02:25 +0200 From: m.kornig@sondal.net To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: nice to meet you References: <1181846668.46718c8cd54da@ssl0.ovh.net> <1181921456.4672b0b0e4a43@ssl0.ovh.net> <925d17560706150854r10a5a49am6eeb3514bee2a8e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560706150854r10a5a49am6eeb3514bee2a8e0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 89.225.9.222 X-Spam-Score: 0.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: 6 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4966 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: m.kornig@sondal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Selon Jorge Llambías : > In my limited experience of witnessing some such situations, (having > attended a few Logfests) what I have observed is that people have simply > said {coi}. Thanks for communicating your observation, Jorge. Then beginners should stick to {coi}, too and forget about "nice to meet you". I guess the diphthong alows for a certain variability to express joy, interest, surprise etc. in the intonation of the voice. Cheers, Martin