From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 04 11:43:15 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjdkg-0000ZH-PQ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:43:14 -0700 Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjdkd-0000Yt-T9 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:43:14 -0700 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so822343bwz.34 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:43:05 -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=4ZBNhr6/QkPkiwhTZopbwk8ncL7kklRY82x6QM0zQxM=; b=aRIIKB8W2oeIKtH3PozfQPVNG0L3OwuREWR+gHlQImDXJNFbio1cpdZM78vi6XuAXa y44VaR9zJl7P55a//f3Afg1XgyTWgAmPYpLxrRf6zzdOp9PaQat1MtrjJgXB3HnhZBkQ +9/JKgUEmggqxPxhZvpnMIA2oFb3zVNv+GJrA= 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=MZkuZVgpdzUU/9neM8/3OrFfL9Cy+z0RWVxHOdlCRlNHhH3RfXP1+tRL6sH9JBDeVT pwIdJeBDbFJyObzOPn9x5XrnXzyODlX0ip7VdOf6p2I/xYEHJ/jPYOsZC9g0HZSPfGNv wV8z+sGxKBJ9AlPNJWwselbDXThHHk0mO5u94= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.34.22 with SMTP id j22mr9393021bkd.43.1252089785096; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:43:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4de8c3930909040703q2bd0caa2l46c9a72f7d79f94d@mail.gmail.com> References: <5715b9300909031338k5c931840x1c394e6a40a077b3@mail.gmail.com> <425e4ac20909031551w386814e8na1e2d2d4ade90dce@mail.gmail.com> <4de8c3930909040703q2bd0caa2l46c9a72f7d79f94d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:43:05 +0300 Message-ID: <71550650909041143l73165fc2mcbd71fb652a11783@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "don't you have somewhere to be?" From: Yoav Nir To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00032555a4c2de1a170472c4de43 X-archive-position: 2192 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: yoav.nir@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --00032555a4c2de1a170472c4de43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We should be able to preserve the tone and sarcasm through rhetorical questions paunai xu do bilga lenu cliva paunai xu do bilga lenu klama le datselzva On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, tijlan wrote: > Though i'm not a native English speaker, it seems to me that "don't > you have somewhere to be?" is not a real question but an indirect > suggestion. So i agree with Selckiku's translation: something without > "xu". > > > > --00032555a4c2de1a170472c4de43 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
We should be able to preserve the tone and sarcasm through rhetorical questions

paunai xu do bilga lenu cliva
paunai xu do bilga lenu klama le datselzva

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Though i'm not a native English speaker, it seems to me that "don't
you have somewhere to be?" is not a real question but an indirect
suggestion. So i agree with Selckiku's translation: something without
"xu".




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