From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 18 14:48:03 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 18 May 2004 14:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BQCRG-00027c-KU for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 14:47:54 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 14:47:54 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "Do you speak Lojban?" Message-ID: <20040518214754.GT6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040518210322.GN6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040518211201.67453.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040518211201.67453.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7912 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 02:12:01PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > 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. > > Presumably the person asking that question is interested in actual > speakers, not potential ones. They don't need to be speaking in lojban > right now, but they do need to be actual (ca'a) speakers. I apparently don't understand ka'e and ca'a. My point was that I didn't want to ask "xu do ca ca'a cusku bau la lojban". -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