From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 26 11:12:17 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I3FWS-00032Y-9u for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:12:17 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I3FWM-00032B-E1 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:12:15 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b21so479350ana for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:12:05 -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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=t+oLXBXMclo0qQn/54UK2gxYBJdy20XKtnEGHBmZgyanoQUAx5mAC86JV13g0l49/Y1LV6jaP4DZysdrxaemfWaplGlr0SsgWVvs7XLJPdsPLVmU+nSqkZi5s33I0c5crkDou89BJ4PGN4sPNPa95CtImaImKwUDVZP9XiqAtek= 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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cVYW1uhbL2/+kYCOmtrphEYkCV/moSS0NfsB1E3OmR99Fd1JC74+Wwm1diiup8qiYZukXjBCmWmWcVE0pNyIhWRv5ErtVsif+SHqIvawWHnZH3xs539ZhSBtOoPMViascOoeLctVLjszPjB9mcuCbihu6KxnOOo6GsC4gkeQ8mA= Received: by 10.100.94.3 with SMTP id r3mr4039097anb.1182881525387; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.42.17 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560706261112r16ebde4cra70288a25b1e815b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:12:05 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: I'm... My name's... In-Reply-To: <1182878406.46814ac6bfc21@ssl0.ovh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1182798606.4680130e60899@ssl0.ovh.net> <200706260034.11084.phma@phma.optus.nu> <1182878406.46814ac6bfc21@ssl0.ovh.net> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5152 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 6/26/07, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > > > What you want is > > {zo .tim. cmene mi}. > > I'm a bit confused by the use of periods > before/after names. Are {zo tim. cmene mi} > and {zo tim cmene mi} correct, too? All three are correct. {zo tim. cmene mi} is just a bit strange because it marks, arbitrarily, only one of the two obligatory pauses. It's more consistent to mark either all or none of them. > Which spelling should a beginner learn: > none, one or two periods? Probably two is more helpful for beginners, as it serves as a reminder that the pause is necessary when speaking. mu'o mi'e xorxes