From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 20 20:45:13 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0S8P-0007SG-5U for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:45:13 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0S8M-0007R1-0m for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:45:13 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20091021034503344.GMWM12118@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:45:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D195A72 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:45:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Yoda quote Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:44:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <200910180906.52373.phma@phma.optus.nu> <7f1d42860910201959o1e21dd3di87abe0a9a11d2ab@mail.gmail.com> <7f1d42860910202006l3223e43y7546edfac94ed9b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7f1d42860910202006l3223e43y7546edfac94ed9b9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910202344.59039.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2470 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 Tuesday 20 October 2009 23:06:55 Ryan Leach wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Ryan Leach wrote: > > scratch that, I should probably have use the imperative. > > > > pu do cuxna ki'u ko na troci > > Hmm, I don't think I used the right modal connective there. Doesn't parse. It's equivalent to "pu do zo'e cuxna ki'u ko zo'e na troci", which means "before you (something) chooses because of you (something) doesn't try". If you place "i" before "ki'u", it parses, but doesn't make much sense. Pierre -- li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci