From treed@surreality.us Wed Jan 28 19:52:26 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from 68-234-38-146.anhmca.adelphia.net ([68.234.38.146] helo=home.surreality.us) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Am3EA-0005D8-1B for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:52:26 -0800 Received: from ben ([192.168.8.42] helo=llhosts) by home.surreality.us with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Am3eu-0005TX-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:20:04 -0800 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How much do I mass? From: Theodore Reed To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <87n089zk8q.fsf@raphael.poss.name> References: <40162DBD.16791.79F34@localhost> <87n089zk8q.fsf@raphael.poss.name> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pR92EBQOfqOJvsmc7u6T" Message-Id: <1075348352.23359.6.camel@ben.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:52:33 -0800 X-archive-position: 505 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: treed@surreality.us Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --=-pR92EBQOfqOJvsmc7u6T Content-Type: text/plain; charset= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 03:47, Rapha=C3=ABl Poss wrote: > "Philip Newton" writes: >=20 > > Is {mi li xo grake} a suitable translation of "How much do I mass?"?=20 > > (Or, colloquially speaking, "How much do I weigh?".) >=20 > Unless you especially want a number, I find {mi ma grake} > simpler. Indeed, that latter form allows more subtle answers like {le > mutce} or {le na'e pluka}. pe'i lu li du'e li'u zmadu lu le mutce li'u le ka se djica --=20 Theodore Reed --=-pR92EBQOfqOJvsmc7u6T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAGIN/w24JwM4aDNwRAnDxAKDm0m6V3k6jfX8Npktr2VVSdi8LZACeNG0F sfxHSEwJvIKcDETb3ycnL4I= =SMlg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pR92EBQOfqOJvsmc7u6T--