From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 12 07:45:12 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KSv7X-0004gC-9C for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:45:11 -0700 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.241]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KSv7S-0004ey-K7 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:45:10 -0700 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2346382rvf.46 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:45:05 -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:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9FuGwd64rTSh61QSn16B8typnf6+4zDl70MbJO1pnbs=; b=S4jQi1aqkG8qUponRJ9HhvAmF/lhItOngEkRdyQlsxdo2erj5y7Rh4/yG9z4ObTOMb BSvppAHyyQRFY3es6tmnTAmbG0spqDmUdXRhkn4zAJ20VJHjJvQipwhUDldNc8duRKnW e+Mpkv22vF5KNBRf602WVoz8HZ7fKruDlO1Gw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=j5sG6B4zsE9jToQ09RDvQglguDJ4ltgyknA8EHwH6LFNyNDqVyDdZxPiaUe5rAb9TE 1FJgSkhsUo9QRn6F3NqXIo/kc6fTo3ZcmacL6EbGEVQn/w6UHCEjB5Knt++xQ/UJrfEc 6s+SeSzqkwN7SFM0TD8UUomcExqyL79vi+rKA= Received: by 10.141.29.21 with SMTP id g21mr4410065rvj.225.1218552305463; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.162.14 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <96f789a60808120745r36950afeh93e845141bf8274a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:45:05 -0400 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: feedback please In-Reply-To: <489A4A6C.6090305@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <489A4A6C.6090305@gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 814 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, peter hering wrote: >i za'a ry zmadu fi le ka kavbu be lo sfani While technically not wrong, since zmadu is a comparison, it's hard to say what you are comparing R to. Probably you would want to use "mutce fe lo ka kavbu be lo sfani" (or traji if you are REALLY satisfied....) timo: >> .i se fulta le cpina litki lo ba'e so'i morsi cinki > This seems to mean, that the liquid floats on the dead flies. While this could > be a neat stylistic device (so many dead flies, that the liquid itself was > swimming in fly corpses), it seems like that wasn't intended. The cause for this > is, that if you put no sumti before the selbri, the first sumti after it is > assigned into the x2 slot, which is the x1 slot of fulta. Actually it's not clear what function the dead insects fill, since they would be in the non-existent x3 of "fulta", not the X1. Anyway, all that's needed here is to add "fa" before "le cpina..." --gejyspa