From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Tue Sep 21 06:56:13 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41904.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.155]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9l7j-0006Pu-LA for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:56:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20040921135532.27868.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41904.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:55:32 PDT Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:55:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: guess the tanru To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <200409202217.22149.phma@phma.hn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 8634 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 Pierre Abbat: > Here's a tanru for a phrase I've seen many times. Can you guess what it > means? > {terzbacau spisa nilcla kamsortai} > If you have such a phrase (or word), throw it out and let's guess. terzbacau: x1 lacks material to make x2 spisa: x1 is a portion of x2 nilcla: x1 is the amount of x2 being long in dimension x3 on scale x4 I can think of two possibilities for sortai: sortai: x1 is a shape of many things x1 are the many-shapes of x2 kamsortai: x1 is the property of being a shape of many things x1 is the property of being the many shapes of x2 I have no clue what the tanru could mean. Can you use it in a sentence? :) mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail