From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 19 06:36:12 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdlKl-0001X6-Hz for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:36:11 -0700 Received: from mail-vw0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdlKd-0001WP-Ph for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:36:11 -0700 Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so3630364vws.25 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:35:57 -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; bh=jUje47jVHULpLgxgTYCOAfbDQdQ+yDGVtWwoz4/opsw=; b=raa1vxXll4p/ASquFIMrERW23zFUmtVawizkzhwBPzU4119g5OM0RD9+qQ+0MwWmLV 4IiEXC+eo2C+I6iMTNgX9cT5rHZe/JwsRpYIDRu5c7UkC4ePRo6by/9q8Yef4SYTo7cs dY/l5TjljASvfN758nKWHfg/rHFsRAvapcbNI= 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; b=oywGVauK/+SnmNRUbdxzSjjtvwhkrm3Q4sDjb25uO6HRM5nfkuqrJN+RhSzQjHidMb NxRbwSXl6x7z1NrTOSWJRgeahZiHLEWX9pyABik3fljiiYELp9PpUdTrkC58K603M39F f/0xQSHtA2gP7MDDTVRHxEJ8Zzs26i8Usa4Cw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.13.143 with SMTP id c15mr8864834vca.117.1250688957510; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:35:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86eir89c7s.fsf@cmarib.ramside> References: <52a782220908170147k6598dc71n390352d283f6ea06@mail.gmail.com> <86eir89c7s.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:35:57 -0400 Message-ID: <5715b9300908190635q112e7b1bq84c5bb2411b7985d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: greetings From: Luke Bergen To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0014853d22ee0974bd04717eb75c X-archive-position: 2039 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lukeabergen@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --0014853d22ee0974bd04717eb75c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit do you mean http://www.lojban.org/tiki/phrasebook ? "how are you?" is kind of a weird expression. In english it can mean a lot of different things depending on tone etc... Some rough equivalent are: {xu do kanro} (literally "are you healthy") which represents more of that english way of saying "how are you" in a concerned tone. {do mo} (literally, "you do what") which is more like "what are you up to?" {ma mo} (literally, "who does what") which is something like "what's up"? On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM, wrote: > 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? > > > > --0014853d22ee0974bd04717eb75c Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable do you mean http://www.lo= jban.org/tiki/phrasebook ?

"how are you?" is kind of a= weird expression.=A0 In english it can mean a lot of different things depe= nding on tone etc...=A0 Some rough equivalent are:

{xu do kanro}=A0 (literally "are you healthy") which represen= ts more of that english way of saying "how are you" in a concerne= d tone.
{do mo}=A0 (literally, "you do what") which is more li= ke "what are you up to?"
{ma mo} (literally, "who does what") which is something like &quo= t;what's up"?

On Wed, Aug 19, 20= 09 at 9:15 AM, <sunrise2000@comcast.net> wrote:
Alexandre Dezotti <dezot= ti.alexandre@gmail.com> writes:

> How do we do the basic greetings ?
> =A0i 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}? =A0Loosely translated: "How's your lif= e?"
Is that likely to be understood?




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