From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Feb 22 10:34:45 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Njd7E-0000FF-U7 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:45 -0800 Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com ([209.85.212.53]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Njd6j-0008LY-Dd for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:17 -0800 Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so29793vws.40 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=EkWTnEuU6E7lv4RM4AXAYM2LTE8mPtfYi1Lx0zYCDlc=; b=OGmL/t4Cnf/oTEYxaYblL52zq1Psp3wPGtvSOHx+Mda3d0BKrRvVRWhIorRepJw+Cf vY4wawpktpFrCnXSSkse/+g6HhLhtHHhK7NJbMy7b8HVV3eslxXxrlvcQKoL6Y+qf+iZ 8AmnRcC5FQGLqO4Jh7UpW83uxLrCod4/Bo/Os= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=AL4u+q5yMdjDryUfJqgeBjniEDIZpaCjtMS3+kn7hTAqWTTs/UytNI5UeBklrEQOwd d6WPOJrmyNOevGiSLEjwuW5/1ccvQ+zhbLG5SeE9gsEMsIDtoEgile78imRjvFenv25G QZVPjOWsvGjHmc6cZg4df9mjZCsknNYvsPm68= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.124.5 with SMTP id s5mr7884173vcr.217.1266863646711; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20050419104222.27410.qmail@web32110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:34:06 -0500 Message-ID: <5715b9301002221034v6b3b6e7atdc7de3a75e8f7ed8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: To be polite in lojban. From: Luke Bergen To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636d34488a41e47048034adf5 X-archive-position: 16993 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lukeabergen@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --001636d34488a41e47048034adf5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 they way I understand it {.e'o} is more specific. I seem to remember somewhere in the CLL that pretty much anything becomes more polite if you add {pe'u} to it. Whereas {.e'o} is only for if you're requesting that the listener do something. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Geoffrey Beresford wrote: > What's the difference between {pe'u} and {.e'o} for "please" ? > > > --001636d34488a41e47048034adf5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable they way I understand it {.e'o} is more specific. =A0I seem to remember= somewhere in the CLL that pretty much anything becomes more polite if you = add {pe'u} to it. =A0Whereas {.e'o} is only for if you're reque= sting that the listener do something.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Geoffrey B= eresford <gfb= eresford@gmail.com> wrote:
What's the difference between {pe'u} and {.e'o} =A0for "pl= ease" ?



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