From betsemes@gmail.com Sat Mar 06 09:12:41 2010 Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.160.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NnxYG-0007rz-VK for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:12:40 -0800 Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so2058879gyg.40 for ; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:12:26 -0800 (PST) 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=BgknCYGKnUCEC6m3eROUEqkmDigGr8KOeoxsFf1Zx4Y=; b=TE649TUDCDN0d3ID4qmRp62JpSyt9HEbPuT5HXj+KN7zVDe8PTtWfLGZZpJXSKY51S Qqjdyxpm/L9JHG8/z6sUTn8R4THEqkBU1FSuZVLwe5YOWQKY+4RZsWYR2RiEriyxR5mY VoBjqYi5ehwGhNZ1iBjiX1Y77PlDdENZStDn8= 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=JrfWgfvBKshO1FEkh3E4n5DpaRTqAZ1XMFrS8fMrK3l9BdMxI5olhAXxMkmOW9uPiX EVJNVbmEczKXTEwWxRNh2Wso2Sp91hSVLVEM15v+b+ThIeP238LRBefFWZaiYrai2O0S 3LtqeZSC2p40Svb1pue9dtDGQZVTBxypVHw5o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.24.16 with SMTP id b16mr3067438agj.43.1267895546156; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:12:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <925d17561003060810n97fe8d2g4ecbf679e3592cc4@mail.gmail.com> References: <925d17561003060810n97fe8d2g4ecbf679e3592cc4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 13:12:26 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: la blupinxe nunjamna From: Efrain Caro To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 3/6/10, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > I think "ze'e kukte" or "vitno kukte" would work better than "ci'iroi" > for "eternally". "ci'iroi" is "an infinite number of times", so if she > tastes good every third time for example, she could still be tasty an > infinite number of times. "ci'iroi" might still be a compliment, but I > don't know that being tasted so many times wouldn't be perceived as a > measure of easy virtue in vampire culture. :) Point taken. I just took ci'iroi as "eternally" from the dictionary without stopping to think that {ci'i} actually means infinite. Literally it would be impossible to be tasted an infinite number of times, but the intention is just leaving a compliment. > whatever else goes in x2 of kukte) is elided, so that leaves (2) as > the only sensible interpretation. I would buy that argument, but just > be aware that using comparative shortcuts like that is usually > dispreferred in Lojban. Yes, (2) is intended. Any reason why those shortcuts are dispreferred? > I would say "pu'o cargau". "co'a" is the actual start, "pu'o" is the > "about to" state, And what a wheel usually does is rotate rather than > oscilate, but I guess it can oscilate too. I used "oscilate" just because I didn't find something for "spin". Now that I have the rafsi, I can find this: carna [car] gismu x1 turns/rotates/revolves around axis x2 in direction x3 which is what I wanted to say. Thank you about {pu'o}. --=20 Efrain http://www.firstgiving.com/ahome4alyson