From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 29 13:28:37 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:28:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Jp-0001wr-BU for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:28:17 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Jp-0001wk-1c for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:28:17 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:28:17 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: New to Lojban and a question Message-ID: <20051229212817.GN4222@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050326194416.60028.qmail@web60502.mail.yahoo.com> <537d06d005032705071496f143@mail.gmail.com> <20050327180029.GW10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <4246F819.6080209@lojban.org> <20050327200806.GX10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d175605032715014e381357@mail.gmail.com> <20051229073151.GX5289@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560512290519y49e28010u220af5924eb05fcb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d17560512290519y49e28010u220af5924eb05fcb@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10971 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 Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:19:00AM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > On 12/29/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > Which leads me to my rant that we have no good words that I've > > found for "specific" or "detailed" as in "I need you to be more > > specific in your description of the man you saw". > > Something with {tcila}? > > mi nitcu lo nu do tilzengau lo ve skicu be le nanmu poi do pu > viska To expand the lujvo a bit: mi nitcu lo nu do zengau lo ve skicu be le nanmu poi do pu viska be'o lo ni tcila Yes? Yeah, I guess that does work. Thanks. I'm not sure it covers all the cases I had in mind; I'll be back if it doesn't. Never seen zengau before; could you perhaps put it in jbovlaste? :-) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.