From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Dec 11 10:15:06 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:15:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GtpgA-0007vt-Hy for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:15:06 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GtpgA-0007vm-8l for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:15:06 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:15:06 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Does this mean what I think it means? Message-ID: <20061211181506.GN31052@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <457B3AC4.5070906@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <457B3AC4.5070906@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3833 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 Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Ronald Guida wrote: > I read the following short conversation on the main Lojban list: These were two seperate conversations. > (Person A) lo lijda prenu cu je'a carmi mabla > (Person B) za'a lo du'u go'i cu te lijda do > (Person A) a'o : le balvi cu to'e mabla .I o'a cai ko prami ko > (Person C) xu do CNIno.i xu do ZVAti la'o.py. irc://irc.freenode.net > #lojban .py. .i mi NELci do .ui.u'i > > Here is what I think they said: > > (Person A) Religious people are indeed extremely derogatory! More like "brightly derogatory expression"; carmi there doesn't make much sense, and it really should be {se mabla}; the x1 of mabla is the swear word, the x2 is the thing you're swearing at. > (Person B) I see you religiously believe that. *ond* > (Person A) [Hope] The future is commendatory. See comments on mabla above. > Love yourself with overwhelming pride! Not quite; more like "I have overwhelming pride; love yourself!" > (Person C) Are you new? Are you on irc://irc.freenode.net > #lojban? I like you :-) [amused]. Add [happiness] to the end there and you're fine. The fact that you had trouble with Person A, by the way, is not something you should take as *your* problem. -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/