From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Thu Aug 19 12:32:08 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 19 Aug 1993 17:47:04 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 19 Aug 1993 17:46:58 -0400 Message-Id: <199308192146.AA00404@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6005; Thu, 19 Aug 93 17:45:36 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 6822; Thu, 19 Aug 93 17:45:42 EDT Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 16:32:08 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: On the tense system X-To: Lojban List To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: <9308180910.AA03190@relay1.UU.NET> from "Colin Fine" at Aug 18, 93 10:09:25 am Status: O X-Status: la kolin. pu cusku di'e > mi na'e certu pilno la lojban > 'I non-expertly use lojban' > or > mi na'e certu bo pilno la lojban > (which is equivalent to > mi pilno be la lojban be'o na'e certu) > "I am a lojban-using non-expert" The "bo" should be "co". "mi na'e certu bo pilno" means that I am other than an expert user of Lojban: i.e, I have some entirely different relationship to it, not necessarily involving "pilno" at all. -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.