From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jan 21 12:57:30 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H8jkQ-0004e6-BY for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:57:07 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H8jkP-0004dt-Go for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:57:05 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:57:05 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: quest/search/sisku Message-ID: <20070121205705.GC21920@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20070120223532.GB21920@digitalkingdom.org> <12d58c160701201504i5fef4b27tad58e95fc5bd9345@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12d58c160701201504i5fef4b27tad58e95fc5bd9345@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 13552 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, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:04:53PM -0500, komfo,amonan wrote: > On 1/20/07, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > > >There doesn't seem to be any word that's good for "I'm going to > >search the whole world for The Holy Grail" or "I'm going to > >search the countryside for The Black Knight" or whatever. > > > >I honestly can't think of satisfying ways to fill sisku for > >either of these, and there's no other good word. Suggestions? > > > The definition of x2 of sisku has been generally reviled, and > someone (xorxes?) assiduously ignores it & places an object there. > As for the x3, maybe {zvati} is useful: > > mi ba sisku tu'a la'e zoi fy San Graal fy ro lo'i zvati be lo > terdi > > mi ba sisku tu'a la xekri xirsoi ro lo'i zvati be lo nurma That's a very interesting trick. It took me a while to understand it because I hallucinated a different place structure for zvati. :-) I like that. I think a lujvo (zvati+sisku) might be in order. I'm also wondering about mintu+sisku for the sisku everyone wants. :-) Now I just need to figure out what "quest" means. :-) -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.