From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 04 05:10:09 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:10:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LeqrR-0006Cn-Gv for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:10:09 -0800 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.148]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LeqrO-0006CS-5O for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:10:09 -0800 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 14so2431277qwa.58 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:10:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YNuasuUQX5ocGpd6pTTgD+voVSiIoFpQ+TD2acKBkzA=; b=c0r95iw3qkuFNmWBfQYBk8Uamrqf31pLGgslEu/DQ+2IPsAF47GyDFyQdLfWddZbqt R2HuxW3sOSmTDWsVeE+5DVM7G9qIDjH3CxHen0lC+fGhuJLNS0gScjhdsGiSr0mln9D2 6vZByv9gYoVNe/PVLoO1H3nuqcBqUyDYuRX1E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JFaI5cowPN38k651CDdlDNOUwc+xLZcOtrUAnGPo5WxZSUv6oU+EjwswlXliFWqJFR 0t5uWNliML2I75yBrndC1c6Pyq3fqNbfc4YjP0HAs4xrnXAwpRSwNF+5YOxxF9a85Hh3 UYM/8amnTy0zy8ppJ+gq6WqYVbVtPM+g5Lu3k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.70.146 with SMTP id d18mr4293834qcj.44.1236172204823; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:10:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <425e4ac20903040114q5f7c87cfibc2207199b083ee3@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090302231357.GF25033@sunflowerriver.org> <425e4ac20903032110xe9e5e8cy2853275e40383813@mail.gmail.com> <5a3750120903032327v653fd950u7ae2bbfa787d11d7@mail.gmail.com> <425e4ac20903040114q5f7c87cfibc2207199b083ee3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:10:04 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560903040510l12e4d202lc92ebdcea74636da@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: grammar check for my first few sentences From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1387 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Stela Selckiku wrote: > > lo nu la .lojban. zenba lo ka ricfu [kei kei cu] ba jalge loi nu do pilno Actually, "cu" (or alternatively "kei" or "vau") is not elidable there. Without them you get the single sumti: lo nu la .lojban. zenba lo ka ricfu ba [ku] [vau] [kei] jalge [ku] loi nu do pilno [vau][kei] [ku] [kei] [ku] It sometimes seems like tenses can do the job of "cu", but they don't always. mu'o mi'e xorxes