From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 28 05:13:02 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CCGqq-0000RW-FK for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:13:00 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:13:00 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] mabla notci Message-ID: <20040928121300.GB32324@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <1096320871.41588767cd14e@www.gulik.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1096320871.41588767cd14e@www.gulik.co.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 794 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 Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:34:31AM +1200, mikevdg@gulik.co.nz wrote: > Quoting doug : > > > ki'u ma lei mabla te vecnu cu ba'eca vi te notci > > (because of reason) (what) (the mass described) (****ing!!) (3rd-person-sell) > (very-during) (here) (3rd-person message). "Why are the sellers *now* here writing?" Using "lei" to gloss English plurals is somewhat bad usage, but unfortunately common. > Is he complaining about the spam? It seems likely. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"