From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 05 12:17:24 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2vUr-0004rx-66 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:17:01 -0800 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.234]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2vUk-0004rh-ID for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:17:00 -0800 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so10040688wxd for ; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:16:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=kr61brmBC7Wjg6P+r8ffMr5wBy8tC2OHtqVb0yYel+GetrdU5Wl5yZAgmG5C9BEYsfPJtuWQcjQB8dAiSKZUwQzORlBe5p7TFBaVtAAF8bcUbwkYBom3AtN8MJGOgPK2ikAh3geoza7bkTWryANccUy0RhdKBdBa+BMqdgR4IyY= Received: by 10.90.96.20 with SMTP id t20mr988013agb.1168028213515; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:16:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.31.16 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:16:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3ccac5f10701051216h13364c34ue4b10daf63bfb52d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:16:53 +0300 From: "Cyril Slobin" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Duty, promice etc... In-Reply-To: <925d17560701051203n32513783neab6a15a5b5856df@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3ccac5f10701050608x71a6381p89a54e54e2239e65@mail.gmail.com> <95093.56426.qm@web81311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <925d17560701050934yc0c5158w7d06fb2f916dc9a@mail.gmail.com> <3ccac5f10701051012g4a37b11fnc22ce33e68d30747@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560701051107x61f57454x9dba1da1af8dfa2f@mail.gmail.com> <3ccac5f10701051122x6bd822a1wb5f1f4f04af79912@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560701051203n32513783neab6a15a5b5856df@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c29bfa3f98411c70 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: -25 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 13507 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: slobin@ice.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list coi xorxes > I understand, yes, the topic has deviated from your question. To say > "Keeping your promise would be silly" I suggest: > {lo nu zukte lo se nupre be do cu se bebna} Yes, it works, but it is too verbose. After all, the original text is a bit of poetry, and I am trying to avoid explicit {zukte}. Probably something like {le su'u nupre} or {tu'a lo se nupre} does the job. ... mi pensi iseni'ibo mi zasti ... -- Cyril Slobin 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.