From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 26 12:27:10 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:27:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J7cqK-0001CZ-S9 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:27:09 -0800 Received: from squid17.laughingsquid.net ([72.32.93.144]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J7cqC-0001C9-SE for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:27:08 -0800 Received: (qmail 21267 invoked by uid 48); 26 Dec 2007 12:26:52 -0800 Received: from c-24-63-92-33.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (c-24-63-92-33.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.63.92.33]) by webmail.ixkey.info (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:26:52 -0800 Message-ID: <20071226122652.ifbxbga7go0gw40s@webmail.ixkey.info> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:26:52 -0800 From: mungojelly@ixkey.info To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] zo zoi .iuro'i References: <20071225195037.f1affe0bd44gssgs@webmail.ixkey.info> <200712260106.34434.phma@phma.optus.nu> <96f789a60712260624x6587b05r12e8f47670a497@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560712260720h79a85a40ldf662246410cbdcb@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60712260744r14fd1c39of2c8729000d721e0@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560712260754o2e6b28a6p4e412e1e6809e19d@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60712260856o1f283b81ma8c640e5779a546c@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560712260922q26dd6069r4eb8b60b60ad7c8d@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60712261013k36624c44m8685ee8a6f32ffb7@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560712261026k1617e941nee01e2d0d41d115c@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60712261136q415cc5caw3a54a200711f30fe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <96f789a60712261136q415cc5caw3a54a200711f30fe@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 50 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mungojelly@ixkey.info Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Quoting la gejyspa : > Remember.. The point of the la'o and zopi is to quote foreign > things. In those languages, the rules for pausing etc. might > conceivably be > different. .ie .i mi jinvi la'e zoi superkalafrAj. Could we step back for a second & appreciate how awesome this is? Lojban is misnamed; logic is only one of its corners; a better name would be the Everything Language. Evidentials? Sure toss them in. Tenses or aspects? Why not both! Need a word for something? Make as many as you like. And what if with all its features Lojban still doesn't cover what you want to say? There's the zoi escape hatch! Say it in Solresol if you need to! .superkalafrAj bau la lojban. .iucai fi la lojban. .iucai fo tu'a dei mu'o mi'e. bret.