From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 05 13:04:55 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:04:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxpYd-0004DW-CA for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:04:55 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxpYd-0004DP-90 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:04:55 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:04:55 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How do I greet my daughter when she gets born? Message-ID: <20081105210455.GP20021@digitalkingdom.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 989 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:22:37PM +0100, Hans Petter Goksøyr wrote: > > Hi. I appologize if I appear stupid. I intend to learn lojban one > day but for now I'm too busy. I don't really know what a mailing > list is but I guess people mail each other. Hopefully my mail ends > up in the right place. Yep, you're fine. > My whife and I are pregnant. I wish to greet my daughter in lojban > when she comes. How do I say "welcome to the world" or somthing in > lojban? I have wondered about this myself. My gf and I are trying to get pregnant, but failing. Anyways. fi'i cai le cifnu The simple way: "You are very welcome here, infant!" Replace "le cifnu" with "la [name]" if you have one. More complex: coi le cifnu ko kufra le munje "Hello, infant. Be comfortable with the universe." Perhaps add an ".a'o cai" for "I extremely hope!". Lots of other options. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/