From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Dec 21 09:17:01 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J5lUb-0005E7-38 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:17:01 -0800 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J5lUT-0005Dm-Lu for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:17:00 -0800 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m16so550003waf.20 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:16:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=2TxoL/Sm2SBQ6gMEe0Qup1u9OANZqbVmkMYI2G0l2yw=; b=lIt4SqSKJb0/GFHL3ISrtSeniMMTloEon4IjEAgsTgA38FSIPsPeKdjSRQetmUrpsHsc9oC4NYKmwC3vGTpx0z5ue4Gh7TUTSynqy0em7IAQ4n2AD+BwRn4bkfwONLX17bKMHBfmcoAeGa55UPh5KpaSd6Ow0+1TJtagxTTPBd0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lJtbG7PCXmpDf/0FehkRNjoDoiqt5jXL9ZXa+9Wqtr9rUyKc3cxg65EFzvOa7werLMoFXh1/WplbmEu4Mrxdis+cYSCsor4GgHZ/RKQUU7ONnsuJSTaWcK6vIDdenmU1/ydwBDNyW6ja6Hmd6l7tJR4RSwv7x+m9KHzHyTUCFAM= Received: by 10.115.90.1 with SMTP id s1mr1673510wal.41.1198257409224; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:16:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.135.9 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:16:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2f91285f0712210916r77570081mea0ab7ba039858a0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:16:49 +0100 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Correction please In-Reply-To: <96f789a60712210842w2d9ba10fvf69015b33c13fccc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0712210307i4aad2c31jc98c7b95fbb566f0@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60712210658o71af36f7j9d3e73813ae6839f@mail.gmail.com> <2f91285f0712210830s56621eacxa546cf3f3041da09@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60712210842w2d9ba10fvf69015b33c13fccc@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 12 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners > > What if it's her who characterizes the very property of being a funny > > person, that is, she is funny in a way that is characteristic to her? > > How about {ko'a kai ri xajmi prenu}? > > > > mu'o mi'e vid > > > That still doesn't work the way you want it to. Now it means "She, > characterizing she, is a funny person." Rememeber that a BAI cmavo like > "kai" is going to take at most one sumti following it. Let me ask a > clarifying question, are you are trying to say that she is the > epitome/embodiment of being a funny person (which is not what you asked > before ("she is a characteristically funny person)") , or that her brand of > humor is quirky, that what might be funny to her might not be funny to > someone else ("she has an odd sense of humor")? > > --gejyspa The latter. And I thought the uniqueness of her brand of humor could be referred to by modifying the bridi {xajmi prenu} with {kai ri} or {kai}. How about {ko'a sepa'anai xajmi prenu} then? mu'o mi'e vid