From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 26 07:17:09 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 26 May 2008 07:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K0dVd-0001VM-FY for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 07:17:09 -0700 Received: from smtp.mail.umich.edu ([141.211.14.82] helo=hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K0dVY-0001Sv-HU for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 07:17:09 -0700 Received: FROM [192.168.1.6] (c-67-174-205-222.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.174.205.222]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 483AC620.9F626.17546 ; 26 May 2008 10:16:00 -0400 Message-Id: <60C02B75-CF4E-49B2-9D7F-B36DFE841C00@umich.edu> From: Alex Martini To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <19989B49539344FEAECAB833E0C29DC0@Cohen2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Yitzik asks his first questions X-Priority: 3 Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:15:56 -0700 References: <119C0B344EF0448ABD8F47C56483A7E5@Cohen2> <200805260710.33691.phma@phma.optus.nu> <19989B49539344FEAECAB833E0C29DC0@Cohen2> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 591 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: alexjm@umich.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On May 26, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Isaac Penzev wrote: >> .e'a pei mi samkelci ti > Is the emotional {pei} obligatory here? ui coi .itsik. Yes, the {pei} is needed to make it a question. {e'a} is the additudinal for "approval". And {pei} is a sort of "fill in the CAI" question. CAI is the selma'o for intensity markers, which lets the other person respond with things like {nai}, {ru'e}, and {sai}. Without {pei}, it would be a statement meaning something like "(I approve of the fact that) I play the computer game." mu'o mi'e .aleks.