From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 20 11:58:23 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C9TMl-0000Ya-J1 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:58:23 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:58:23 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: gismu abbreviations? Message-ID: <20040920185823.GC23979@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040920050504.68173.qmail@web21204.mail.yahoo.com> <000401c49f42$110a92a0$fc4d883e@crh37> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000401c49f42$110a92a0$fc4d883e@crh37> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 785 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, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:45:56PM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote: > PS. Incidentally - I've been getting a little confused over this. > Why is it "la kris." but "mi'e .kris."? I can't help feeling that > it should be one or the other, but Lojban for Beginners seems to > suggest not. All cmavo in the same group as "coi" can take a name directly, without "la" preceding. So can "doi". Here's a list of COI cmavo: be'e COI request to send co'o COI partings coi COI greetings fe'o COI over and out fi'i COI hospitality je'e COI roger ju'i COI attention ke'o COI please repeat ki'e COI thanks mi'e COI self-introduction mu'o COI over nu'e COI promise pe'u COI please re'i COI ready to receive ta'a COI interruption vi'o COI wilco -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"