From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Feb 04 10:57:21 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18g8G1-0008Qu-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:57:21 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:57:21 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Greetings, and commands Message-ID: <20030204185721.GJ20552@digitalkingdom.org> References: <67E894BA4AB90F4781580985A5FAF32E16986F@rachael.letnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <67E894BA4AB90F4781580985A5FAF32E16986F@rachael.letnet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 63 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 05:16:11PM -0600, Bodeen, Gabe wrote: > >> mi .e ko xe preti le se dikca > >xe preti is undefined. And why are you questioning electricity? 8) > > sa te preti le se dikca ki'u lenu mi tadni le dikca je zbasu saske > > Hrm. Does ki'u need to be followed by an abstraction? No; it takes any single sumti. > I was originally hoping for "Let's ask a question about what the > electric current's going through" because the "electric building > science" classes were overstimulating that morning. Try "pe'u ma'a ko finti le te preti be le se dikca". You might want to qualify that last sumti as well, with dacti or cilta or something. > .e'o nodo ckasu mi lenu mi finti lo cizra tanru go'i -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