From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jul 31 14:16:01 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1DzLA9-0008Is-By for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:16:01 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.40] helo=ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1DzLA6-0008Il-95 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:16:01 -0700 Received: from hypermetrics.com (cpe-66-68-164-156.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.164.156]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j6VLFtH9028135 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:15:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42ED3F8B.7030102@hypermetrics.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:15:55 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Diagramming Lojban References: <42EBF0D9.1010801@hypermetrics.com> <42EC63A1.1030702@hypermetrics.com> <05FA0805-8EC1-4190-9C9E-7AD2D59A8705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <05FA0805-8EC1-4190-9C9E-7AD2D59A8705@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1659 X-Approved-By: hal9000@hypermetrics.com 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: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Zachary wrote: > > It seems perfectly reasonable, except I don't know what this {va} is. > Could someone explain that to me? > As I understand it, vi/va/vu are rather like: here, there, way over there. It modifies differently depending on its position in the sentence. At the end, it adds a new sumti to the standard sumti -- meaning something like "over there near something unspecified." See the replies to me a few days back -- "A few questions" was the subject line. Cheers, Hal