From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 01 04:46:06 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:46:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MiRoL-000692-Lp for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:46:05 -0700 Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com ([209.85.217.220]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MiRoG-00068U-6f for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:46:04 -0700 Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so7254474gxk.10 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:45:54 -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=I//RmXZb+dQMgXqUq25/saEkFuxJYkh8aEEpEZPtbWU=; b=l9vyXVyJRTKS5oivAz+FUT7wgzmJQXY7sc6RT/9YKG/nSXnPr9LGr547hUnswrjknk e7KMND0Ke8TJOogajddty5omQ6vTgkPYUQzkvLQ8qW1RefwLSd9LRfI61TIwnv4Kaxso LeSKwYGJZym9E1VHoae9pt+38PVjJ1uHX0k3Y= 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=ecQLFTJW5bNneggfTEzxOPA4UcCHFM6C41msRI467bOlPfynYgddNxpFzTou+B+H8S aQR+fMZmfBym2eyiQlil28frx8VNIaJPn1hCjZY2paIInS1RlBtwkYYJlZoxFLSf32sQ Fe9V7chXBZ+iVfon/UxCZBWfS4zpp+rJOu+Gs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.237.3 with SMTP id k3mr11512224ybh.70.1251805554050; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:45:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8905c87a0908311450ve432a04wba9c9cecaccd57f3@mail.gmail.com> References: <5715b9300908251541m363ca5ecqd59d5542cefafb29@mail.gmail.com> <425e4ac20908272034r32b74bc8o5f7892ea65a0ef7f@mail.gmail.com> <8905c87a0908311450ve432a04wba9c9cecaccd57f3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 07:45:54 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60909010445h24c5c45eva2e8e15d6ccd85ee@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: as though From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-archive-position: 2142 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 31, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Judson Lester wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Stela Selckiku wrote: >> >> lo nu ko bajra cu simsa lo nu da'i do tirxu se jersi >> Make an event of you running be similar to a hypothetical event of you >> being tiger chased. > > Would it be grammatical (or appropriate) to say {lo nu ko bajra cu simsa le > nu da'i do tirxu se jersi}, since the event being compared is one the > speaker has in mind, not an actual event? > > > Yes, that works too-- "Make your running similar to you being chased by a tiger". --gejyspa