From arj@nvg.org Fri Jan 03 08:36:21 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:36:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67] ident=[Yl0hHvES9P5LMYr/se9wBbwttbbsvwtM]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18UUnw-0000GR-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:36:17 -0800 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no ([IPv6:::ffff:129.241.210.68]:18414 "EHLO hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no" ident: "[H/NM/lOIhdDC4TS4q+8U6R9KNb697uni]" whoson: "aga") by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:35:59 +0100 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:35:59 +0100 (CET) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: asking for definition In-Reply-To: <200301022307.43911.phma@webjockey.net> Message-ID: References: <200301022307.43911.phma@webjockey.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 3695 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Pierre Abbat wrote: > If you were reading a book and saw a sentence "mi lalzga le korkuvanu be le > cipni", and wanted to ask someone in the room, what would you say? > > ca'e lo korkuvanu mo? "What did I declare that at least one korkuvanu was?" > ca'e korkuvanu jo mo? "What did I declare that something had to be or do in order to be a korkuvanu?" > korkuvanu ki'a? "Korkuvanu, what do you mean by that?" I don't think this is suitable if the speaker is reading from a book. > or something else? I think ".e'o ko ciksi le si'o korkuvanu". Or maybe skicu. Arnt Richard Johansen http://people.fix.no/arj/ Du klickar bara på en ikon så SER DU DITT LOKALA NÄTVERK. -- Z mag@zine lovpriser Win95 i nr. 7/95