From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 25 17:17:03 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlCsp-0003Z7-6D for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:17:03 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlCsn-0003Yr-H9 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:17:02 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77315CE4A6 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:17:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Spelling Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:16:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <97f5058c0710251211i28bef488p2dbb55f6f5271809@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <97f5058c0710251211i28bef488p2dbb55f6f5271809@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710252016.56786.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5664 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 Thursday 25 October 2007 15:11, Penguino wrote: > How do you spell within a sentence? For example the English sentence, "Joe > writes the letters "ABC"." If this translates to la djos. ciska lu .abu by. > cy. li'u, wouldn't that mean that he literally wrote the words ".abu by. > cy."? It would. To say that he wrote the letters, you could say {la djos. ciska me'o .abu by. cy.}. phma