From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Mon Sep 27 15:47:01 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CC4Gj-0002YK-5u for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:46:53 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8D2C04D61; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:46:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: simple question Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:46:19 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409271846.20039.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8682 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 27 September 2004 17:50, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > I want to (know how to) say, for example, "I want to read a book". > > Does "mi cukta tcidu djica" mean that? > Is something like "mi djica le nu mi tcidu lo cukta" more usual? I would say "mi djica lo nu tcidu lo cukta" if I don't care which book I read, and "mi djica lo nu tcidu le cukta" if I want to read a particular book. Another way to say it is "mi djica co tcidu lo cukta". phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa