From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 06 21:09:00 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9wPx-0003oH-0z for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:08:41 -0700 Received: from pi.meson.org ([66.134.26.207]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9wPu-0003oA-7P for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:08:40 -0700 Received: (qmail 26974 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2006 04:08:32 -0000 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 7 Aug 2006 04:08:32 -0000 Message-ID: <44D6BCBF.70003@kli.org> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:08:31 -0400 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Arnold CC: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Elephants Dream References: <20060805212500.55479.qmail@web56410.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <5F4A8C2A-CDC3-4107-AE46-2CF0D67A9738@umich.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 12347 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Matt Arnold wrote: > And when the response comes back {noda} for "Nothing", to which is > replied "Really?", can "Really?" be translated as "xu je'a"? Or {xu > je'a di'u}? Is there a scalar affirmer/negator question word? Isn't this a good place for {pei}? {je'apei?} {je'anai}/{je'a}(/{je'aja'ai}) ~mark 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.