From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 14 10:32:36 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:32:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18ttyt-00058o-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:32:35 -0800 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:32:35 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: FAhA-cmavo Message-ID: <20030314183235.GW25165@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: 206 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 Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:08:38PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > I use vi-va-vu to tag the magnitude (small-medium-large) of the > distance from the origin. So for example I would say {mi gunka ki le > mi zdani vu lo ki'otre be li mu} to mean "I work five kilometers away > from my home", or more literally "I work taking my home as the origin, > at a long distance of five kilometers. That's a very interesting trick. Don't think I'v ever seen that before. -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