From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Feb 22 11:44:31 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18mfZX-0007uP-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:44:31 -0800 Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:44:31 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: (No References: <200302220519.h1M5Jfs6000898@miriam.letu.edu> Message-ID: <20030222194431.GD21342@digitalkingdom.org> References: <200302220519.h1M5Jfs6000898@miriam.letu.edu> <200302221636.h1MGaffO002729@express.cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302221636.h1MGaffO002729@express.cec.wustl.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 174 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:36:40AM -0600, Adam Lopresto wrote: > .e'unai mi se cnino la lojban. > > > li pamoi > > .i xu kakne lenu lo tanru se finti fo la'o gy. pro sumti gy. > > > > In case that's wrong, here's what I wanted: Can tanru be made with > > pro-sumti ? The particular sentence that brought this to mind was, > > "Hungry, I come to the table." There 're probably better > > ways--which I'd like to see, also--to translate the thought, but I > > wanted to know whether tanru even can be used with pro-sumti. > > No, I don't think you can. A tanru can only be made out of a > combination of brivla, and a pro-sumti represents a sumti, not a > brivla (to my mind, an instanciation, a noun, instead of a > relationship). Technically incorrect: do mi zei cinmo "You feel like me." Sort of. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi