From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 30 16:39:01 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HifSO-0007yA-DQ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:39:00 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HifSL-0007xw-Op for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:38:59 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5DECEA4F for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:38:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Hello All Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:38:36 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704301938.36472.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4434 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Monday 30 April 2007 19:19, Spencer Shepard wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm a CS and Math student at UC Davis and I just signed up yesterday. I > just have a quick question about what very little I have learned so far. > > I know "le blanu" would be "the blue thing" and that "ti" means "this" (or > sometimes "here"?), so would "le ti blanu" be the right way to say "this > blue thing"? Right now, I'm reading the "Lojban for Beginners" PDF. If > anyone has suggestions of other ways I might learn, please let me know. "this blue thing" is "ti poi blanu", "ti noi blanu" (actually "this, which is blue"), or "le vi blanu". "le ti blanu" means "this one's blue thing". "vi" is a spatial tense marker; in Lojban, tense indicates both space and time, and can even indicate direction of motion. Try figuring out "mo'i ni'a xance ko". Pierre