From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 01 18:37:43 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgrv5-0007ct-3g for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:37:43 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgrv0-0007ZP-SH for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:37:43 -0700 Received: from chausie (chausie.ixazon.lan [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C970CE858 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:37:36 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: kabri .i botpi Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:37:34 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804012137.34473.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 433 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 01 April 2008 17:00, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 4/1/2008 05:01:28 AM Central Daylight Time, > > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > glass and decanter: {kabri .i botpi}, unless you want to be more > > specific. > > Shouldn't ".i" be changed to ".e" or some other conjunction? > I though ".i" was to join sentences into longer discourses/utterances. ".e" is ungrammatical here; it joins sumti. "je" and "gi'e" would be wrong; they would mean that something is both a cup and a bottle. "jo'u" might be right, as would ".ije". Pierre