From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Nov 22 09:53:23 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:53:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EecKX-0006IA-8f for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:53:21 -0800 Received: from miranda.org ([65.124.18.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EecKN-0006Hw-1J for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:53:19 -0800 Received: (qmail 26357 invoked by uid 534); 22 Nov 2005 10:53:08 -0700 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:53:08 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "I Go From Here" Message-ID: <20051122175308.GQ20158@miranda.org> References: <1488445752.20051122225731@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1488445752.20051122225731@mail.ru> Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) X-archive-position: 2648 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:57:31PM +0600, Yanis Batura wrote: > Many cmavo in Lojban are used for conversion - sumti to selbri, > selbri to modals and so on. {vi} is a tense and cannot perform as a > standard sumti by itself. Of course not. > So I cannot say {*mi klama fi vi} for "I go from here". Why you would want to when the correct thing to say is "mi klama fi ti" is beyond me. > Is there a cmavo in Lojban converting {vi} in the way it can take place as a sumti? No. -- Jay Kominek