From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 10 14:34:10 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh9aT-00072w-W3 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:34:10 -0700 Received: from mail-ew0-f173.google.com ([209.85.219.173]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh9aR-00072L-Ln for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:34:09 -0700 Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so1252572ewy.34 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:34:00 -0700 (PDT) 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=3/u7wpt0etj8V+FAqPyXA9balNRS4kfg8ZJqfIElKSM=; b=sKwzEDiGIn9MtBsfRDYbSvREETt8IJfRK5Cup7KWgG7HHZ9zYYvSftUmIV2hZOMOO+ 9ptMq/rbaTLNipnFOL5V9XDfZVkvd3sE8Y3CRkddWa7OPLKOY32jHxIbdbRTExyOrle3 GxpH/XbBc9lRLT8kFwWjRgLfPFlQZHrhdQsfs= 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=xrh9PEjuk+XepZSP+080EXJdM96UC3bEsfJLqQ/gJZKyGd4dt+OmyEMkuzcYj/ePYY 0+EeVh/g/g6JhWkkjmTmZWeTQrFp6psD4dKTx0O+MPmdMFK2Hr5RRwpYcbPY4NZAvVIx xGdY+8592cIbeFJN43FcJ/xhYfmAfRR0zpcGc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.54.202 with SMTP id i52mr3026661wec.196.1236720840683; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:34:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090310211020.GO11968@digitalkingdom.org> References: <5715b9300903101354n1f06bcfbmc485a82c5b8b25df@mail.gmail.com> <20090310211020.GO11968@digitalkingdom.org> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:34:00 +0100 Message-ID: <4de8c3930903101434o27b72e2du7d24f978c5b47b46@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: vreta From: tijlan 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: 1408 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pascal.akihiko@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners 2009/3/10 Robin Lee Powell : > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:54:07PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote: >> Why would a gismu have a definition like "ing"? > > Because "Bob is reclining on the couch" is just the present tense > activity; blame the copula. Also "Bob is sitting on the couch" is the present tense activity, but the gimste gives "sit", not "sitting", as the definition of "zutse". >> It seems like the definition should be "recline" and to get >> "reclining" you would have to say "nu vreta". > > No, you would use nu for "I'm watching Bob reclining on the couch.". > > mi viska le nu la .bab. cu vreta le sfofa Another possibility: la .bab. nu vreta djica mu'o mi'e tijlan