From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 23 09:39:14 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hg1ZI-0001fA-Ar for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:39:13 -0700 Received: from web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.196]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hg1ZE-0001eg-VY for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:39:11 -0700 Received: (qmail 53622 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Apr 2007 16:32:22 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=f4gPpzR0oDOz9M9VuSmSaGNku59fQDu5r0apYl26kooGo69IK8Dz7T4TpmFIpyEgzbpTdWGjspsrhChatCGH0oBVf485Vbz+267m8wqIIF8O2b4sYAaHWpP4kiobNcaFsG4IHEYbvaiGPeIshds1faY4WnTD37mPS48to5b3PmI=; X-YMail-OSG: X.mTl6MVM1nm0.bd5O8_mCFB4rK27GUD73JDWNA4FKgau47cIeXJN1iWj_U4S1JYOQ-- Received: from [74.96.97.233] by web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:32:22 PDT Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:32:22 -0700 (PDT) From: ANDREW PIEKARSKI Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Please review #003 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Message-ID: <722733.50457.qm@web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.8 X-Spam-Score-Int: -7 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4381 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: totus@rogers.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Actually, I hate exposing my ignorance - but how else can I learn? The reason I used {loka ce'u} was to find out if I can use it correctly (just practice!) - however, I admit it didn't occur to me to use a simple tanru. Thanks. mi'e .andrus. ----- Original Message ---- From: Cortesi To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 1:27:59 PM Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Please review #003 On Apr 22, 2007, at 6:21 AM, ANDREW PIEKARSKI wrote: > "Your thoughts are extremely complex. You are very beautiful, > however, I prefer your mind." > .i le do se pensi traji loka ce'u pluja .i do mutce melbi ku'i mi > nelcu'a le do menli (1) I admire your willingness to try things in public. Thank you. (2) I don't see any need for (nor get sense of) {loka ce'u} -- why not simply .i le do se pensi cu traji pluja .i... which exactly matches the English. (Or, use {mutce} in both clauses, for poetic parallelism?) Dave Cortesi