From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 05 11:51:05 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9REU-0004CA-Gw for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:50:46 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9REU-0004C3-7x for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:50:46 -0700 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:50:46 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: [Anecdote #13] fonxa tavla Message-ID: <20060805185046.GK11108@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <1393341625.20060712073741@mail.ru> <20060805152249.GF11108@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <12d58c160608051145s1f6b508cg1424dd15a20dd751@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12d58c160608051145s1f6b508cg1424dd15a20dd751@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 12319 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 Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:45:50PM -0400, komfo,amonan wrote: > On 8/5/06, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > >On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:37:41AM +0700, Yanis Batura wrote: > >> lo nakspe cu cusku fi le speni be vo'a fe lu > >> > >> doi dirba do ba'o fonxa tavla ze'i .ue lo mentu be li reno .i go'i ma > >.a'u > >> > >> li'u .i spusku fa le ninmu lu > >> > >> lo srera namcu batkyci'a > > > >.u'i sai .i ku'i mi stidi lu lo *nu* srera namcu batkyci'a toi > > > Hm. But I think the woman is responding specifically to the {ma} > from {go'i ma}, which expands to {do ba'o fonxa tavla ma ze'i ue > lo mentu be li reno}. So the answer is rightly the person she was > talking to, hence {lo srera namcu batkyci'a}. Let me know if I'm > missing something here, and sorry I couldn't manage the Lojban for > that explanation. Oh, you're quite correct. Whoops. Here's my crack at a Lojban response, just for fun: .y. .ie nai .i le sumti be zo tavla bei li re cu prenu gi'e nai fasnu se ra'a zo ma -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.