From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 19 20:35:37 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv5Mv-0004pb-KB for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:35:37 -0700 Received: from miranda.org ([65.124.18.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv5Mp-0004pQ-JT for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:35:36 -0700 Received: (qmail 30255 invoked by uid 534); 19 Jul 2005 21:35:30 -0600 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:35:30 -0600 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A few questions... Message-ID: <20050720033530.GT22508@miranda.org> References: <42DDC358.5010302@hypermetrics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42DDC358.5010302@hypermetrics.com> Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1600 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: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:22:00PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote: > Just a few random questions. > > 1. Apparently people say {mi'e xal.} and not {mi'e la xal.} -- > is that just because "la" is understood and can be dropped? > Do we ever omit it otherwise? It is because you'd be saying "I am that which is named Hal", rather than "I'm Hal" > 2. I can't find names for the planets. Surely we have them? See http://www.lojban.org/tiki//tiki-index.php?page=SolarSystem&bl > 3. Has anyone ever thought about coming up with a system for > diagramming Lojban utterances? Or would anyone be interested? jbofi'e can provide diagram-like output. Presumably you'd just want to do it according to the machine grammar. -- Jay Kominek