From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Feb 03 13:00:23 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18fnhW-0005qx-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:00:22 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:00:22 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Robin's Tagline Message-ID: <20030203210022.GG20552@digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 56 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 Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:56:05PM +0100, Jan Pilgenroeder wrote: > You are right about that. That did not answer my question though. > "mu'o" seems to imply that the participants don't part, but that the > discussion is continuing -- even though the pauses between the > utterances are not a few seconds but may be a couple of hours or even > days. I actually like that concept :-) But this also implies that > beginning another utterance with "coi" seems out of place. This is > quite different from usual etiquette. Therefore I was just wondering > if leaving out the "coi" this would be considered mildly rude by most > lojbanists. mu'o, IMO, should be used only when you're done talking and are ready for an immediate response, where 'immediate' is medium-dependant, of course. And you can say coi whenever you like as far as I'm concerned. 8) -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