From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 18 14:03:33 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 18 May 2004 14:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BQBkA-0001OP-O0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 14:03:23 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 14:03:22 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "Do you speak Lojban?" Message-ID: <20040518210322.GN6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040518200547.39167.qmail@web40411.mail.yahoo.com> <20040518205448.GB12891@fysh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040518205448.GB12891@fysh.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7906 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 Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:54:48PM +0100, Zefram wrote: > I'd favour {xu do cusku bau la lojban} or {xu do tavla fo la lojban}, > depending on context. I don't like either of those, because they are asking about actuality and not capability (at least by default). They'd both be fine with ka'e, though. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi