From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 20 22:55:12 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0UAB-0001MZ-Fn for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:11 -0700 Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com ([209.85.219.216]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0UA8-0001Ke-GB for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:11 -0700 Received: by ewy12 with SMTP id 12so7207556ewy.0 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WUlI3wa6KCes+6hrS48Dq6wi4twejIRIqzRRTh1nxQo=; b=QmkG4WNdby6X/derxLcDV+Xuvbnxcbqz7ucs1MFHvgt4BukXrlWK3LZIZkYlt8rb5k YVuBff5MRb23XG6xY7NpeKaUj49RTBg3wVKHLtXOQzcyUdTHAFf/Ov3S5LTNIq8OyPA0 JiJ7uEaN7m98M4QHrbJAIcRuqjuZIPVu1DhKM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IvugPVBiXXByEFUJSw7eeEbDGSEF1RzotliHyglD+o7RrF9sw3OrGskX9HZ1cf6YDi TBL78OpkX7LsQ1jhflwpmUKOaKynlrI3Is8dmp+HS5NxmHmDV4BvuDjpBQAkMsJlP3QF hTbamfcbHksmT7ZLcijE95QhuwiabBU2LeZvc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.90.7 with SMTP id d7mr2564268wef.81.1256104502133; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910202344.59039.phma@phma.optus.nu> References: <200910180906.52373.phma@phma.optus.nu> <7f1d42860910201959o1e21dd3di87abe0a9a11d2ab@mail.gmail.com> <7f1d42860910202006l3223e43y7546edfac94ed9b9@mail.gmail.com> <200910202344.59039.phma@phma.optus.nu> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:02 -0700 Message-ID: <7f1d42860910202255k1c380239l9f51bb55d45b6b80@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Yoda quote From: Ryan Leach To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 2471 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rsw.leach@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Hmm what I was going for was more like this: you already chose, do not try maybe like this...? .i do pu cuxna .i ko na troci is that closer, do you think? On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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 > > > > -- “Nothing bothers me more than sloth. The objective is to fix mistakes of ambition and not make mistakes of sloth. I work my ass off.” -Tim Ferriss