From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Mon Aug 23 13:45:27 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzLgk-0002BC-44 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:45:10 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 437034B18; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:44:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ibaubo Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:44:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200408230639.36111.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040823184559.GP3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20040823184559.GP3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408231644.39747.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8542 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Monday 23 August 2004 14:45, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:39:35AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > le tirxu cu catra le gerku .ibaubo le te lisri na ka'e kancu > > The tiger(s) kill(ed) the dog(s). In language: the storyteller > can't count. > > "the storryteller can't count" isn't a language. I might generously > accept it as a description of a (class of) language(s), but that seems > an odd usage. AFAICT it was the jaguar, for which I don't have a specific word, and I'm not sure the panther was the same species I normally mean by panther. The story is in Pirahã and is in the end of the PDF file. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa