From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 19 12:59:11 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdrJP-0005rs-5O for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:59:11 -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 1MdrJJ-0005rF-Ma for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:59:11 -0700 Received: from cmarib.ramside (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmarib.ramside (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n7JJwiZG028148 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:58:45 GMT Received: (from rusat@localhost) by cmarib.ramside (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id n7JJwhXT028145; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:58:44 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> <86eir89c7s.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <5715b9300908190635q112e7b1bq84c5bb2411b7985d@mail.gmail.com> From: sunrise2000@comcast.net Date: 19 Aug 2009 19:58:41 +0000 In-Reply-To: <5715b9300908190635q112e7b1bq84c5bb2411b7985d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8663cjinim.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Lines: 15 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: 2040 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 Luke Bergen writes: > "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 I was also thinking {xu do gleki}. > {ma mo} (literally, "who does what") which is something like "what's up"? .ua mi nelci tu'a lu ma mo li'u How about {ma mo sera'a do}? Or just {mo sera'a do}? (What's doing what pertaining to you?) (What pertains to you?)