From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 23 15:30:21 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:30:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LQVTh-00054b-5s for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:30:21 -0800 Received: from imo-m14.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.204]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LQVTe-000544-EG for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:30:21 -0800 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-m14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v39.1.) id d.d56.1a51235a (39955) for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:30:06 -0500 (EST) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:30:06 EST Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: What is love? To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_d56.1a51235a.36abacfe_boundary" X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: 6 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1286 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --part1_d56.1a51235a.36abacfe_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2009-01-23 18:15:11 Eastern Standard Time, grant.walmer@gmail.com writes: > .i la lojban. mo. > bangu crogau mi > how do i make it a negative imperative? like "language, don't hurt me" > "Language" seems to be used as a vocative here, so maybe "ju'i bangu", then the negative (na) imperative (ko) - "ko na crogau mi": ju'i bangu .i ko na crogau mi mi'e stevon mu'o --part1_d56.1a51235a.36abacfe_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message=20= dated 2009-01-23 18:15:11 Eastern Standard Time, grant.walmer@gmail.com writ= es:


.i la lojban. mo.
bangu crogau mi
how do i make it a negative imperative? like "language, don't hurt me"


"Language" seems to be used as a vocative here, so maybe "ju'i bangu", t= hen the negative (na) imperative (ko) - "ko na crogau mi":

ju'i bangu .i ko na crogau mi

mi'e stevon
mu'o --part1_d56.1a51235a.36abacfe_boundary--