From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 15 04:33:18 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JEkyj-00011p-LI for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:18 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JEkyf-00011W-4q for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:17 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so2005859rvf.46 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ucUq9t4HZ6HCgF2wfiBsnpCL23AG/BcJ/Wg9mkqZJA0=; b=l4JfE5QK+gxSYpJ0iqprMGpDMDjgqrkCamAHzWxhlul0sZWLWqUMwdOOvSKHmTssh5xfQIQcKKaxbGvMPmHeNIwCA0w9jgqVwuSzjJvV0Z7CALhR1yLPwA64tKzx5S1oAP120kt8RmLVJDBIxS/yIoHqNPkP5xs3UqjflaxEhvM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bjPxwQBzdPm8xUyhM8NknkL9TT1/f/l8ns6pWHjKCXOaN+2w9OuME1Dwn6WZ95LnRNg4HeBeeh0VK2R7qE0Gtaaec9j62jtMhnFJEDsBSM75tQvi9ECG3M1GLvD0HA3UFOst2ulxj2YFfG6RT5pXanMfrNkyuayvPUzkQi0madA= Received: by 10.140.177.15 with SMTP id z15mr4553094rve.128.1200400387050; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.190.17 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <96f789a60801150433q4bebf75cvca166dce76a82311@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:33:07 -0500 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: introduction and questions In-Reply-To: <200801111723.13071.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <500f963f0801111254k4a279c89ob12bdb1e39233b84@mail.gmail.com> <200801111723.13071.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 239 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Jan 11, 2008 5:23 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2008 15:54, Robert Dumond wrote: > > I take the bus to and from work here in Rochester, MN. I would like to be > > able to saying something like "I am taking the number 11 bus to home" or "I > > am taking the number 3 bus to work". The closest I've been able to come up > > with so far is: > > > > .i mi klama le briju fu le papa sorprekarce > > > > .i mi klama le mi zdadi'u fu le ci sorprekarce > > That means "the 11 buses". {le papamoi sorprekarce} means "the 11th bus", > which, being a tanru, is sufficiently ambiguous to mean "the bus that runs on > the 11th schedule". You could also say {le me li papa sorprekarce} (the > number-11-kind-of bus) or {le li papa sorprekarce} (11's bus). > And here's another possibility: le sorprekarce be me'e li papa ("the bus named '11'") fi'i gejyspa