From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jul 09 15:10:22 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FzhTX-0007vO-Gn for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:10:03 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FzhTX-0007vG-9i for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:10:03 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:10:03 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: [Anecdote #6] xabyterspe Message-ID: <20060709221003.GH18983@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <97397704.20060707223404@mail.ru> <20060707160659.GC11776@achatina.gabrielebner.at> <114580292.20060707232807@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <114580292.20060707232807@mail.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 12037 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 Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:28:07PM +0700, Yanis Batura wrote: > On 07.07.2006, 23:06, Gabriel Ebner wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:34:04PM +0700, Yanis Batura wrote: > >> B: na cumki .i ro prenu zo'u gonai terspe panzi gi nalterspe > >> panzi > > > You have to leave out the {zo'u} here, or you'd have to write > > {ro da poi prenu zo'u da co'e} > > {ro prenu zo'u ...} is perfectly grammatical, and I don't see any > reasons why adhere to strict logics in everyday speech. {ro broda > zo'u brode} is a natural reduction of longer {ro da poi broda zo'u > da brode}. More to the point, {ro prenu} is *exactly* equivalent to {ro da poi prenu}. Welcome to a predicate logic based language; enjoy your visit. -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.