From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 09 14:13:11 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KRvkM-0005ad-HE for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:13:10 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.232]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KRvkI-0005a0-8J for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:13:10 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so317222wxc.25 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:13:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GAAQ0/sH05P66ngs2J1MbvlHJGFUjT/+cb3PJ5m76yQ=; b=sDUfI2a11Bje8PK4XCWdS1ET/sT+5DKlQIKQQ9cqv+mbMRLMP2hsCVJjmC+AkLnyX3 ix/wNJHujzjAK9P/mSG09CrY53s1FbGmKYN2GHRdu2d4a7v4NfQ7FM6gcJJ1Ju+9tDP0 h3+k8B2AFkPC51PMpTYm6cd2wDaFfvSlYJRQw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s0F7Ykc+P2BqAjPe+LEabCXTSHcb5OXsiN/mvcebz1jcr5mhv/7e5u5z393NVviKk9 uSUhnmMwAW1NHLZrWmtB+WW6z80wwiYhGi61ptIt/roNZJaZ3Fc6eodOQ4qnhtoPKqEv ssdQFqv4nMWNBtuE10avI3sM6cshj1CMmq33A= Received: by 10.70.55.3 with SMTP id d3mr6238616wxa.85.1218316384147; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?96.24.167.105? ( [96.24.167.105]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h37sm5625735wxd.15.2008.08.09.14.13.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <489E0858.80607@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:12:56 -0400 From: peter hering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: feedback please References: <489A4A6C.6090305@gmail.com> <200808070932.47369.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <200808070932.47369.phma@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 809 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pjhering@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2008 21:05:48 peter hering wrote: > >> I wrote the following for my blog. I am certain it is rife with errors >> and even more certain that I distorted or omitted much of the meaning. Any >> suggestions for improvement would be much appreciated. >> >> ni'o mi terve'u ci le me la .reskius. me'u feska'e sfani terkavbu goi ry >> I've changed it to "ni'o mi terve'u ci le feska'e ke sfani terkavbu me'e la reskius. goi ry" > "lo vorme sekai le nerkla po'o" brings up an image of a trapdoor, not a > funnel, to me. I suggest "lo vorme be tetai lo konfletci". > A conical current eater? I like the image that suggests. Thanks, Pierre. Pete