From jon@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk Sat Feb 26 06:08:35 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:02:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([212.104.129.89]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D52cT-0001o5-1V for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:08:34 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275F24069B8 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:08:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22161-01-44 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:08:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [82.152.43.82] (unknown [82.152.43.82]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5687B406958 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:08:30 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <422083BE.3030806@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:12:14 +0000 From: Jon Reeves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: .eosai ko viska le ckule jibri be mi References: <421EA747.80406@gulik.co.nz> <537d06d0050225032046d7f713@mail.gmail.com> <421F8831.5060601@gulik.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <421F8831.5060601@gulik.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-archive-position: 1174 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: jon@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners .ui ki'e la filip. The la seems to be omitted a lot - i don't think it is optional though? Michael van der Gulik wrote: > .ui ki'e .filip. > > Mikevdg. > > Philip Newton wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:19:19 +1300, Michael van der Gulik >> wrote: >> >> >>> mi ba'o cikre la skami be mi (I'm tweaking my computer) >>> >> >> >> I think you want {le skami pe mi} (or, alternatively, {le mi skami}) >> here rather than {la skami be mi}; 1) I don't think you're using >> "computer" as a name, and 2) x2 of "skami" is the computer's purpose, >> rather than its owner. >> >> >> >>> le skami be mi cu spoja >>> >> >> >> It exploded? Or were you looking for {spofu}? >> >> >> >>> mi jimpe fi skami (I understand something about computers) >>> >> >> >> That needs a gadri after {fi} - I'll guess {lo}, so {mi jimpe fi lo >> skami}. >> >> >> >>> mi djuno le nu zo'e kau klama le zarci (I know WHO went to the store) >>> >> >> >> I believe that {ma kau}, rather than {zo'e kau}, is what you wan >> there, and probably {le/lo du'u} rather than {le nu}: {mi djuno lodu'u >> makau klama le zarci}. >> >> mu'o mi'e .filip. >> >> > > > >