From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Sat May 10 17:35:36 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 10 May 2003 17:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19EeoL-0000SS-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 17:35:29 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C1BCE3A63; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:34:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] grammar question in English and Lojban Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 20:34:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305102034.57024.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 5210 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list In {ma'a po'o nitselzbi smani gi'e se birka lo tormau be lo tuple be vo'a}, is {vo'a} correct, or is the sentence comparing baboon etc. arms to human legs? .i ne'i zoi gy. We are the only catarrhines whose arms are shorter than *** legs .gy ma .ei sumka'i posyvla gi'e basti zoi gy. *** .gy? mu'omi'e pier. -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.