From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Sep 11 18:09:33 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KdxAC-0007Wp-H4 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:09:32 -0700 Received: from cpe-071-075-215-096.carolina.res.rr.com ([71.75.215.96] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KdxA6-0007WH-5o for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:09:32 -0700 Received: from chausie (chausie.ixazon.lan [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8476D0673 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:09:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Can you read this and tell me if it is correct? Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:09:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809112109.17958.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 22 X-Spam-Bar: ++ X-archive-position: 14726 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thursday 11 September 2008 19:14:53 arpgme wrote: > Re: Can you read this and tell me if it is correct? > > Author: arpgme > > Ok, I understand "cu" now. It's like "is" when used with a noun + > adjective. There are no adjectives in Lojban, and "is" is {du}. {cu} is a predicate marker, a part of speech which doesn't exist in English, but does exist in Tok Pisin (see http://jbo.wiktionary.org/wiki/i for a comparison). {du} isn't used much, because brivla are verblike ("this is a cat" is simply {ti mlatu}; {ti du lo mlatu} is redundant). It is used when the sumti begins with {le}, is complex, or is a name or a number. le nanmu poi mi viska ca le prulamdei cu du le nanmu poi se flakavbu ca le prulamna'a The man whom I saw yesterday is the man who was arrested last year. li vo vu'u re du li re .i la tulius. du la kikeron. mu'omi'e .pier. 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.