From pnewton@gmx.de Thu Feb 20 02:12:30 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:12:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from postman.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.87]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18lngf-0005QD-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:12:17 -0800 Received: from hamwpne1 (pc1-oxfd1-5-cust27.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [62.254.134.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor-online.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h1KAC6Jl066234 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:12:08 +0100 (CET) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:10:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ti, ta, tu for people? Message-ID: <3E54B7B1.22860.11D026@localhost> Priority: normal References: <3E5377EC.11596.D80F72@localhost> In-reply-to: <37B6AA47-4482-11D7-A8B7-000393B76BE4@mac.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 161 X-Approved-By: pnewton@gmx.de X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 20 Feb 2003 at 4:20, Jan Pilgenroeder wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 19.02.03 um 12:26 Uhr schrieb Philip Newton: > > >> You probably want to get an answer like {leka cumki daspo nalseltro > >> selfa'u le jimca}. > > > > I don't understand that sentence. What is it supposed to mean? > > It's not a complete sentence. It's just an answer to your ma-question. > And it's mostly just one long tanru. The utterance says: > > "the property of possibly destroying type-of uncontrolled (endpoint of > falling movement) of the branch" Which is about as enigmatic as the original. I continue to not understand. *puzzled* mi'e filip. -- filip.niutyn. All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.