From hombre!ai.ai.mit.edu!KFL Sat Dec 16 12:25:39 1989 Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.7) id ; Sat, 16 Dec 89 12:25 EST Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA01486; 16 Dec 89 12:23:28 EST (Sat) Received: from bpa.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.3/3.04) with UUCP id AA25485; Sat, 16 Dec 89 08:01:34 EST Received: by bpa.bell-atl.com (Smail3.1.17.5) id ; Sat, 16 Dec 89 07:27 EST Received: by vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (5.51/smail2.5/03-15-88) id AA24687; Sat, 16 Dec 89 05:03:53 EST Received: by snark.uu.net (smail2.3) id AA12680; 16 Dec 89 04:00:27 EST (Sat) Received: from MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with SMTP id AA26554; Fri, 15 Dec 89 22:40:58 -0500 Received: from ai.ai.mit.edu by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu id aa25216; 15 Dec 89 22:36 EST Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 22:40:11 EST From: "Keith F. Lynch" Subject: Translations and this list... To: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!"gryphon@raven.ulowell.edu" Cc: ai.ai.mit.edu!KFL, uunet!snark!lojban-list Message-Id: <680068.891215.KFL@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Status: RO > Hi. I didn't know that this list existed. I didn't know that I was > on it ["oiscrazy@athena.mit.edu"]. It's very new. I think Eric just added a bunch of people whose addresses he obtained from RLC's mailing list. > "le mi gerna" = "my grammer" [used as a sumti] I stand corrected. > I have no idea what "ca" means, so I assume that it's a typo fo "cu". No. It indicates present tense. mi ca klama I go. mi pu klama I went. mu ba klama I will go. I haven't yet figured out a short way to say "I will have gone" or "I had gone". > It would make more sense to use the cmavo for 'beause', [which "ki'u" > might be, I'm not sure], resulting in this translation: > "my grammer errs because I am new to lojban" Right. "ki'u" is one of several cmavo which map into the English word "because". ...Keith