From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 13 16:19:43 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E45Hz-0001j3-Jg for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:19:43 -0700 Received: from dionysos.oderland.com ([213.115.211.26]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1E45Hv-0001iv-TW for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:19:43 -0700 Received: from c-65f8e253.1210-16-64736c14.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([83.226.248.101]) by dionysos.oderland.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1E45IR-0006dM-U3 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:20:12 +0200 Message-ID: <42FE7F86.70506@handgranat.org> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:17:26 +0200 From: Sunnan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban stuff References: <5ccdc753050813120939457442@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5ccdc753050813120939457442@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dionysos.oderland.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - chain.digitalkingdom.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - handgranat.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1717 X-Approved-By: sunnan@handgranat.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: sunnan@handgranat.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners la cuncuxnas. wrote: > coi rodo > > Still working on Just So Stories on and off. I finished Lojban for > Beginners, which tipped me off to some nice grammatical cleanups (like > using the FA cmavo to pull the continuing dialogue trick (i.e. "But," > he said, "it's too late.")), which in turn got me revising what I > already had. Very near the beginning of The Beginning of the > Armadillos, there's a bit about a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog who eats > "shelly snails and things." I used {lo calku cakcurnu} for "shelly > snails," but the "and things" really threw me for a loop. Right now > I've got {.e lo simsa} stuck in there. Is there a generic Lojban word > for things? Stuff? Anything of that nature? While the "and things" are logically superfluous, {ri citka lo calku cakcurnu .e zo'e} comes to mind.