From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Thu Aug 28 06:37:40 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41906.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.157]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19sMxi-0005vg-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:37:18 -0700 Message-ID: <20030828133646.78958.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:36:46 PDT Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: vocative questions To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 6060 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- "Adam D. Lopresto" wrote: > Hmmm. As strange as it sounds, I think {mi'epei djan} should follow the > logical > pattern and mean "Are you John?". {doipei djan} should mean "Are you talking > to > John?", which can be pretty useful in its own right. For instance, I can > see someone > asking {doipei mi}, "You talkin' to me?". Right. > I guess the more general form > would be > {doidai ma}. There isn't full agreement as to whether in {la mo}, {doi ma}, etc ma/mo are acting as questions or as actual names. {zo ma} is not "what am I quoting?", it is "the word {ma}", and the argument is that names work like that too. There's some discussion about that here: http://www.lojban.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=83 mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com