Received: from mail-qa0-f61.google.com ([209.85.216.61]:44150) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1T2fuF-0008Lx-7i; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:39 -0700 Received: by qadz32 with SMTP id z32sf2758868qad.16 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=aZ1NH5kt75s13d2OsmPBBnmh7Vm4GAZhX88snYcSGro=; b=M0Y/kf728xzv1lXbs3S0lNy5DOZEm1H4Nfhjo99oDNlZhK+/FSD7Ju0YKUWmw5GiUy oiVykR92K2+nV0vZtvVEzufndoyCs+AR7AVoRA1ma4gHO7A2OUppgNlm4mJ7QGkVr0bJ FTo29W0WyGMHikW6SBaKavzoVpQr2sIpaBL4g= Received: by 10.52.91.47 with SMTP id cb15mr1216288vdb.11.1345284310910; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.52.100.135 with SMTP id ey7ls3510079vdb.6.gmail; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.190.227 with SMTP id gt3mr1071264vec.1.1345284310435; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.190.227 with SMTP id gt3mr1071263vec.1.1345284310424; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com (mail-vb0-f41.google.com [209.85.212.41]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y4si808750vds.2.2012.08.18.03.05.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of paskios@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.41 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.212.41; Received: by vbkv13 with SMTP id v13so4132301vbk.28 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.12.41 with SMTP id v9mr899178veb.17.1345284310207; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.58.190.169 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3ce5c3a7-5141-40c3-8826-2d29e3a5fbc9@googlegroups.com> References: <44e6fb5c-91f3-47ba-817c-8560c9c6ca14@googlegroups.com> <502B9E61.8060808@gmx.de> <502BA634.3030007@gmx.de> <5e10061c-cf69-45f8-b14b-fa8ebbad02ae@googlegroups.com> <3ce5c3a7-5141-40c3-8826-2d29e3a5fbc9@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:05:10 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] "Any" and {ro} From: tijlan To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: paskios@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of paskios@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.41 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=paskios@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / On 18 August 2012 00:43, sunderland wrote: > But answering with a noun (any/where/thing) is sorta an Englishism. In > Chinese you'd probably use an adverb (=E9=9A=8F=E4=BE=BF/suibian). You co= uld answer {do > djica lonu citka ma} with an attitudinal. Maybe {se'inai} "other-oriented= ." > Or maybe {ri .aucu'i} or {.aucu'i go'i lonu citka makau} "indifference." = Or > even {roda .a'u} "interest." I would consider {.e'inai} as well: A: do djica lo nu citka ma What do you want to eat? B: zo'e .e'inai Something [resistance against constraint]. --> Anything. mu'o --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegrou= ps.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= ?hl=3Den.