From pille@mac.com Mon Feb 03 05:58:34 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.89]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18fh7K-0007Az-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 05:58:34 -0800 Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h13DwXrJ013746 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 05:58:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([80.142.153.121]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9QK5K00.2XM for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 05:58:32 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:58:31 +0100 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Robin's Tagline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Jan Pilgenroeder To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <94546B18-377F-11D7-8F67-000393B76BE4@mac.com> X-archive-position: 49 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: pille@mac.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners coi filip. > coi .ian do cusku di'e >> .i ki'a lu cridrnoma li'u >> .i xu lu cridrnoma li'u fu'ivla > > .i go'i .i zo cridrnoma cu fu'ivla fi le glibau zoi gy. gnome .gy. From the place-structure of "valsi", shouldn't "zoi gy. gnome .gy" not go into the X2 place of fu'ivla instead of into X4?: .i zo cridrnoma fu'ivla zoi gy. gnome .gy le glibau I wonder if there shouldn't actually go an abstract cmavo (e.g. du'u) in front of the "zoi gy. gnome .gy" > > (My attempt to say "Yes -- 'cridrnoma' is a fu'ivla copied from the > English > word 'gnome'.") > > (Question: Are both of {.i xu lu cridrnoma li'u fu'ivla} and {.i xu zo > cridrnoma fu'ivla} equally acceptable?) I don't see how any of the two would be less acceptable, well except "zo" is just much more elegant. > >> co'o mi'e .ian > > No need to say goodbye quite so soon! :) If I close with "mu'o" instead of "co'o" , does this imply I should leave out "coi" in my next mail (unless I greet someone I have not specifically greeted yet)? > >> But when it is meant to emulate the iMac commercials > > It's not :) http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1192835 is one > explanation of where it came from, IIRC. Oh, now that I've been reading this summary, I start to remember that episode. .ita'eku mi sipybi'o ca lenu mi catlu la nanpankas. > >> Is "cridrnoma" a loan-word (about something related to fairies)? > > Yes. .i.o'aru'e mi pu smadi mu'omi'e .ian. -- Jan Pilgenroeder Theaterstr. 59 52062 Aachen