From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 15 04:39:16 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:39:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JEl4V-0001Ht-FB for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:39:16 -0800 Received: from pro10.proekspert.ee ([212.47.207.10]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JEl4Q-0001Ha-DH for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:39:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pro10.proekspert.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B01E7066B for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:11 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.46 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.46 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=0.139, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from pro10.proekspert.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pro10.proekspert.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6jRNT3hTl8t7 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:05 +0200 (EET) Received: from [212.47.207.59] (pro59.proekspert.ee [212.47.207.59]) by pro10.proekspert.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC0AE7066D for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:05 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <478CA95F.2090409@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:38:55 +0200 From: Elmo Todurov User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071018) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: introduction and questions References: <500f963f0801111254k4a279c89ob12bdb1e39233b84@mail.gmail.com> <200801111723.13071.phma@phma.optus.nu> <96f789a60801150433q4bebf75cvca166dce76a82311@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <96f789a60801150433q4bebf75cvca166dce76a82311@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score-Int: 12 X-Spam-Bar: + X-archive-position: 240 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: todurov@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Michael Turniansky wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 5:23 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: >> On Friday 11 January 2008 15:54, Robert Dumond wrote: > >>> I take the bus to and from work here in Rochester, MN. I would like to be >>> able to saying something like "I am taking the number 11 bus to home" or "I >>> am taking the number 3 bus to work". The closest I've been able to come up >>> with so far is: >>> >>> .i mi klama le briju fu le papa sorprekarce >>> >>> .i mi klama le mi zdadi'u fu le ci sorprekarce >> That means "the 11 buses". {le papamoi sorprekarce} means "the 11th bus", >> which, being a tanru, is sufficiently ambiguous to mean "the bus that runs on >> the 11th schedule". You could also say {le me li papa sorprekarce} (the >> number-11-kind-of bus) or {le li papa sorprekarce} (11's bus). I'd prefer le fei zei sorprekarce.