From adam@pubcrawler.org Tue May 18 13:43:21 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 18 May 2004 13:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal.seas.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.102]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BQBQd-0000x7-Eg for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 13:43:11 -0700 Received: from hilton.cec.wustl.edu (hilton.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.21.4]) by postal.seas.wustl.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4IKgFW13085 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:42:30 -0500 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by hilton.cec.wustl.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i4IKgIGw002381 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:42:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hilton.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:42:18 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "Do you speak Lojban?" In-Reply-To: <20040518200547.39167.qmail@web40411.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040518200547.39167.qmail@web40411.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Status: No, -5.8 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Report: -5.8/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results -5.80 points, 5 required; * -0.0 -- Has a valid-looking References header * 0.0 -- Message-Id indicates a non-spam MUA (Pine) * -0.4 -- Has a X-Authentication-Warning header * -0.4 -- Has a In-Reply-To header * -0.5 -- BODY: Contains what looks like an email attribution * 0.0 -- BODY: {2}Letter - garbage - {1}Letter * 0.6 -- BODY: {2}Letter - punctuation - {1}Letter * -4.7 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 10 to 20% [score: 0.1370] * -0.4 -- BODY: Contains what looks like a quoted email text * 0.0 -- Reply with quoted text ---- End of SpamAssassin results X-archive-position: 7904 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, 18 May 2004, Eric Sumner wrote: > How do you ask someone if they speak Lojban? My attempt at asking the > question (probably mangled beyond belief) is {.i xu do kakne lenu cusku bau > la lojban}. Would it be correct (in most situations) to shorten it to {.i xu > do cusku bau la lojban}? Yes, either of those would be perfectly fine. Personally, I'd use {.i xu do se bangu la lojban}, feels more direct. -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ .i puzu loi prenu cu krici lenu ro mlatu cu cevni .i my. za'o morji