From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 29 17:22:44 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GIDqu-0002Ac-1Q for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:22:44 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GIDqt-0002AV-MD for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:22:43 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:22:43 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: created it today? Message-ID: <20060830002243.GF3832@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20060829171916.29bca6b9.pandora@synx.us.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060829171916.29bca6b9.pandora@synx.us.to> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3545 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:19:16PM -0700, Tasci wrote: > I'm having trouble phrasing the notion "Today I am creating ____". > Create/invent is finti so I think that applies to creation of > something not specific to writing in words. cabdei is for today. > But to put them together in a predictable way, I'm confused. > finti doesn't have an selbri for when the creation occurs, so I > wouldn't know where to put la cabdei in the phrase "mi finti la > carni". ca le cabdei -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/