From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Oct 13 09:12:38 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CHljx-0001B2-5h for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:12:37 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:12:37 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: cmavo can be selbri? Message-ID: <20041013161237.GG12568@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <87r7ocvn9y.fsf@pacbell.net> <200410061402.i96E2VMY019310@mole.e-mol.com> <87hdozatdi.fsf@pacbell.net> <20041013160722.GE12568@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041013160722.GE12568@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 815 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 Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:07:22AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > Thus "zo xu cmavo" makes good sense. And to go full circle, > > this might make sense as well to equate 'xu' as a cmavo-thing. > > > > zo xu du le cmavo > > General beginner's tip: If your language has (aka the verb "to The words "a copula" were supposed to go after "has". > be"), and you find yourself using "du" in Lojban for anything than > math, you've made a mistake. Take whatever time you need to > re-write it. Same goes for "dunli" most of the time. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"