From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Feb 12 20:54:18 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JP9dR-0007aJ-Vx for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:54:18 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JP9dM-0007ZA-Bx; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:54:17 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FF5CE4BD; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:54:08 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org, lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Silly things to say in Lojban Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:54:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <96f789a60802121224m76b593c7p2aae501c7101c620@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <96f789a60802121224m76b593c7p2aae501c7101c620@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802122354.05716.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 346 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 Tuesday 12 February 2008 15:24, Michael Turniansky wrote: > .i da mi no spisa be la daminospitsas cu setese dunda > (Someone gave me no pieces of Domino's(R) Pizza) > > .i gerna fi lu ganra grana garna li'u > ("A broad-stick railing" is grammatical) I had to look that up, as usually we say "gendra" to say that a phrase is grammatical. The distinction is that "gerna fi do'i" means that there is a grammar that governs do'i, whereas "do'i gerna" means that do'i is correct according to the grammar. > .i le tilju xarju noi rinju xabju lo ralju konju bo kamju poi midju > lo bidju briju bo dinju cu sidju fi tu'a lo narju tsiju vanju > (The heavy pig, which is constrained to reside at the principal > conical pillar that is at the center of the beaded office building, > helps out with the orange-colored-seed wine.) > (Anybody but me notice how many Jews...errrr.. "ju"'s there are in the > gismu list?) .i vajni ke vanju jivna javni (Important to cottabists, that is.) .i cire cilce carce jarco ce'e reci cilce carce cu jarco .i cire cilce carce jarco cu jarco reci cilce carce .ije'i reci cilce carce cu se jarco cire cilce carce jarco .i le nakni bakni cu bunre xunre .i mi jgari le jdari jbari mu'omi'e .pier.