From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 30 22:07:07 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 30 May 2005 22:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Dcyy3-00062h-Kj for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 30 May 2005 22:07:07 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Dcyy3-00062a-CR for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 30 May 2005 22:07:07 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:07:07 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Although Message-ID: <20050531050707.GY21667@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <12d58c1605052712293144a25c@mail.gmail.com> <20050527200326.GM21667@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <6A719547EB5D26F3E446E84A@[10.9.30.130]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6A719547EB5D26F3E446E84A@[10.9.30.130]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1477 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 Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:24:22PM -0400, Bruce Webber wrote: > And I see that I have a lot more Lojban to learn. What does "bo" > do? Adam's statement was grammatical; when I saw ".i" I thought > that started a new (independent) sentence and I fed only that part > to jbofi'e. Several things. In this case (that is, in {mi xagji .i se mu'i nai bo mi na citka}), it makes {se mu'i nai} into a sentence connective, and stops it from eating the next sumti (and hence acting as a sumti tcita). -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/