From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 27 04:48:30 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgdSv-0004aP-Tj for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:48:30 -0700 Received: from mail-yw0-f201.google.com ([209.85.211.201]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgdSr-0004ZC-W2 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:48:29 -0700 Received: by ywh39 with SMTP id 39so1291345ywh.32 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:48:20 -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=lHZba+3nC/pEpuqUyC88SF4EPJEgQHdR9TOBXJqfk94=; b=XwM/VubUUN9oJsAvn4M7IXHtFYmmqmc9v//HHELPxdtLAqq7o8mDc5nL3cK/wBnyoZ XpLtNI1Cl3b9cdCukrmiTMOrW+7hQ7l1Dx191/b4cTQt7AABB8alYfX/gvUPEG8LNGR/ 3EWWC9gwgUud/35wc8EjjejdRViKfxveAyN6A= 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=NYlwJeMjxUxHn5wIetz4vfowMwvLtAMvqAY2r1KkvdUz8I6pu22KWA4f9i8GYiTQNx dTmUS5SNt/JNHQdOBFCEvlGfu2bUBmszW1DrYftAHSSfAgrsxDKOUtV9jbGhUJFZWn0w AcsLW0Mm10UHXCbXgwGkhiddSd87zhFJ0Yec0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.169.6 with SMTP id r6mr14230830ybe.95.1251373699929; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:48:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5715b9300908262157g5d62ddaegfb810c09019b01da@mail.gmail.com> References: <5715b9300908251541m363ca5ecqd59d5542cefafb29@mail.gmail.com> <200908260708.40011.phma@phma.optus.nu> <4de8c3930908261821h7de0238fid34f3279cc7e5c07@mail.gmail.com> <200908262333.37355.phma@phma.optus.nu> <5715b9300908262157g5d62ddaegfb810c09019b01da@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:48:19 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60908270448x335788d1wa8fb569cda92bc2a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: as though 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: 2126 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 Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Luke Bergen wrote: > in what way Pierre?  Just the in-directness/mental juggling of cmavo being > done? > > It seems like such a rudimentary concept.  I was kind of surprised that I > didn't get a half-canned response from one of the veteran jbopre.  Has this > question never come up before? My personal preference in those situations has been "ko bajra sepa'a lo selje'i lo tirxu" -- "run, like one being followed by a tiger", although it seems that xorxes generally prefers tai in those situations. Now, of course, I genericized the person being chased, not specifically as YOU would, so if you wanted to me more literal, perhaps, "ko bajra teta'i da'i lo nu lo tirxu cu jersi do" (notice this isn't the same as Pierre's, as I'm using teta'i, not tetai) --"Run, with a theoretic condition of the method that a tiger is chasing you") --gejyspa