From adam@pubcrawler.org Thu Mar 18 07:50:29 2010 Received: from express.cec.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.16] helo=mail.cec.wustl.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NsH3C-0000PD-My for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:50:29 -0700 Received: from grid.cec.wustl.edu (grid.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.20.97]) by mail.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63431E823C; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:50:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix, from userid 29287) id 43EBE1F7878; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:50:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5A11F7876; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:50:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:50:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: How versatile is "nu"? In-Reply-To: <925d17561003130910w4bed3bdfya667a8dd3103f909@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4de8c3931003130452v3473ee1ei70da65f022ac2b1b@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561003130713o346dd22lbe1cb8cf25c66f1c@mail.gmail.com> <4de8c3931003130829i74cbd4eegb24574c821da448b@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561003130910w4bed3bdfya667a8dd3103f909@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-58695404-817711260-1268923811=:29764" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---58695404-817711260-1268923811=:29764 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > I guess the equivalent for "nu" could be "li'i": > > mi nelci lo li'i ce'u citka > > is different from: > > mi nelci lo li'i citka ce'u > > but in practice we would probably just say: > > mi nelci lo nu mi citka > > mi nelci lo nu citka mi > > I think I may have used "ce'u" with "nu" at some point, but it's not > something that I have found very useful so far. It's handy as the x2 of {kakne}. .i mi .e nai lo xamsi cu kakne lo nu ce'u limna .i mi na .e lo xamsi cu kakne lo nu limna ce'u (Putting aside whether {kakne} requires agency or the like). --=20 Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, said the tall biker in the helmet, I NEVER LAI= D A FINGER ON HIM. -- Death, on Elvis (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens) ---58695404-817711260-1268923811=:29764--