From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 19 06:15:47 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mdl0z-00078o-Pm for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:15:46 -0700 Received: from dsl.zenzebra.mv.com ([207.22.49.29] helo=cmarib.ramside) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mdl0s-00078X-CO for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:15:45 -0700 Received: from cmarib.ramside (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmarib.ramside (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n7JDFJXK027802 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:15:20 GMT Received: (from rusat@localhost) by cmarib.ramside (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id n7JDFJPF027799; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:15:19 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: cmarib.ramside: rusat set sender to sunrise2000@comcast.net using -f To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: greetings References: <52a782220908170147k6598dc71n390352d283f6ea06@mail.gmail.com> From: sunrise2000@comcast.net Date: 19 Aug 2009 13:15:19 +0000 In-Reply-To: <52a782220908170147k6598dc71n390352d283f6ea06@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <86eir89c7s.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 2038 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sunrise2000@comcast.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Alexandre Dezotti writes: > 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 ? There is purported to be a Lojban phrasebook somewhere, although I have personally never seen it. "How are you?" How about {do ca mo lifri}? Loosely translated: "How's your life?" Is that likely to be understood?