From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 25 05:43:55 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfvNS-00069M-QB for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:43:55 -0700 Received: from mail-gx0-f219.google.com ([209.85.217.219]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfvNQ-000683-2t for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:43:54 -0700 Received: by gxk19 with SMTP id 19so5127305gxk.0 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:43:46 -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=NRyXxP5ZUU/kn5yHdd/6Xrv2HgYZrtmvAXFLv55367U=; b=sktEPV/BiLEM5gyGufsGdCl6SCTQ0HLJsRmWfnwycb1XpepkLUoWeASkAf7d45pCGI Ja5RS+gMfN+fH1KuO+Jp7y9G+z1iMbxu3mdRqtgkyhCKFOFhCIy+UTQf23s7yY2mWy9O 7nAPgITwhQgNRZuz7d76obqhl3AE2a/MJrsII= 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=N9zb79YBSOZb9rOOMzlxfb1ooZYc3qUIAu/1H9vcfeA9XgWJHu85iB88Hp/HP3+E8S ieXMBL+hAR1JEct1piBm9Kfvi+BGvT/td9fVic0NeJG19nqL2WOyIwSNFOrw4fBP05jN yeicQ1UVEj8eKvQ86Q2e2NssHeLo+0Rgr9JL8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.163.1 with SMTP id l1mr10524359ybe.204.1251204225915; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:43:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090825001026.GB4151@digitalkingdom.org> References: <5715b9300908241705j3bc1f118u7582440e2cd54e2@mail.gmail.com> <20090825001026.GB4151@digitalkingdom.org> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:43:45 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60908250543h4e805fb7u56f2dff058344ebd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "don't do that" From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 2107 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:05:38PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote: >> so, last night chatting in the irc channel got me thinking about >> common phrases that a lojbanic parent might say often enough to >> their child.  Given that, one that I came up with that I couldn't >> figure out a good lojban equivalent of is "don't do that". > > ko na gasnu > > Or, better: .e'a nai > > -Robin > Yes, "e'anai" is good. Of course, if you want to be more formal (and therefore more menacing) "ko ba tarti ti ba'e no da" (I firmly believe you can use ti/ta/tu to "point" to currently occurring actions or states. If you don't feel that way, you can use "lo cabna") --gejyspa