From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Aug 23 09:28:40 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:28:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17iHIX-0004bT-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:28:33 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:28:33 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: "Newton, Philip" Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] fi'a Message-ID: <20020823162833.GM25193@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Newton, Philip" , lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 771 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:37:35AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > How is fi'a used? Is it something like this? > > Were you talking *to* him or *about* him? > --> do pu tavla fi'a ko'a > > i.e. inquiring what role {ko'a} played in relation to the selbri {tavla}? Pretty much, yeah. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/