From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 17 05:36:03 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Md1RT-0002Gk-Cx for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:36:03 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.123]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Md1RP-0002FM-Tm for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:36:03 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090817123553397.VAWC8845@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:35:53 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57F25640 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:35:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: greetings Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:35:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <52a782220908170147k6598dc71n390352d283f6ea06@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52a782220908170147k6598dc71n390352d283f6ea06@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908170835.43070.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2031 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Monday 17 August 2009 04:47:35 Alexandre Dezotti wrote: > hello everybody, > > i made a bit of research and i didn't find what i wanted. > So this list may be the right place to ask the following. > How do we do the basic greetings ? > i mean something like : > "hello, my name is rolf. How do you do?" > or > "how are you ?" > etc. > Is there a reference for that ? "hello, my name is rolf" is "coi mi'e rolf". I don't know how to say "how do you do?"; the literal translation is "do gasnu ta'i ma?", but that would elicit the reply "How do I do *what*?" "How are you" could be "do mo", but that could also mean "What are you?" or "What do you do?" mu'o mi'e pier.