From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Tue May 18 15:56:24 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 18 May 2004 15:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41904.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.155]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BQDVN-0003J8-Vm for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:56:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20040518221710.24697.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.43.74.88] by web41904.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:17:10 PDT Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:17:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: "Do you speak Lojban?" To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20040518214754.GT6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 7917 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 --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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". You don't need "ca ca'o cusku bau la lojban", speaking in Lojban now. You do want "ca ta'e cusku", currently habitual speakers, or at least "ca so'uroi cusku", currently occasional speakers. People who used to be speakers, or will be speakers in the future would not be that much use, so you do want {ca}. What you don't need is {ca ca'o}. But you don't really need to make the tense so explicit since the question is clear enough without any tense. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/