From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 27 06:00:23 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgeaV-0003cC-0z for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:23 -0700 Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com ([209.85.211.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgeaN-0003Xn-EI for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:22 -0700 Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so1365546ywh.16 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:09 -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=pKj2vApAKN9FZYBec+VbVcPq4WDFJS7iGUDWXrVsjOc=; b=An5XZX/WTK2VgNuoRE4ghPO3qJtaqVe49PQyOMjJuOm/j5sAuukVdaWSep3aQVXlY3 FzHIOcdJbrbFFyAPjRNfWtkEyV6IG6J+jyn5F5tNGUKaKUEdkCJ24UcFv5nKNJcJ5zJo kxAHes3QR5KIRsvX2iuk9dR1jepfs0usRslF8= 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=CmJFiwc2HjuHafVtyQO3+Wm1Mo32oK2bF98te+6dYnycp9lIPFfHLLhJMYQGswNwlU Qlq834yxrHh6eWBalkr4WNRKFGml80EU6hWTaf7cIc0u39cnsT23D1AUaa0efXz9mPpx +QluC1Axk27UftIUu2JySGajNDju7in1LQNKs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.90.36 with SMTP id n36mr12977782ybb.301.1251378008534; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <925d17560908270550t691a490bs307b99dd0363cac@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> <96f789a60908270448x335788d1wa8fb569cda92bc2a@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560908270550t691a490bs307b99dd0363cac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:00:07 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60908270600t464a29c8sb28aea3cf73f020e@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: 2129 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 2009/8/27 Jorge Llambías : > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Michael > Turniansky wrote: >> >> 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", > > "be lo tirxu", right? ki'e > > But couldn't that mean "run parallel to one pursued by a tiger" i.e., > don't cross their pass! That's good advice, that way the tiger will > catch them and not you! :) It /could/, certainly, since the tepa'a is elided, although it needn't be. After all, pa'a theoretically means like something in all qualities except one, which means you should not only match their direction, but their speed, exertion level, hair color (well maybe not that), basically in all qualities except that of the actor being you, not them.... -- gejyspa