From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 22 11:01:14 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:01:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1ChBjW-0000xC-4t for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:01:14 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:01:14 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ko ba cu gleki ca'o le citsi Message-ID: <20041222190114.GQ20429@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <200412201937.iBKJb4IP012739@mole.e-mol.com> <20041220195636.GC20429@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <200412202142.iBKLgpIP024092@mole.e-mol.com> <200412221735.iBMHZuIP022323@mole.e-mol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412221735.iBMHZuIP022323@mole.e-mol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 967 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, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:35:56PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > Is {ko ba cu gleki ca'o le citsi} correct for "Imperative-you > future-tense be happy/merry/glad/gleeful during the season/cyclic > interval"? Yep. I'd drop the "cu", though. > Is this a correct use of an event interval? You mean an interval event contour, and yes. > Is {le citsi} just acting as a modifier of the {ca'o} tense, Other way around: ca'o modifies (tags, actually) le cisti. > or is it serving for the x2 place? Definately not that. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/