From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Thu Sep 2 06:35:06 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 2 Sep 1993 12:10:34 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 2 Sep 1993 12:10:30 -0400 Message-Id: <199309021610.AA08548@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3780; Thu, 02 Sep 93 12:08:57 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 6385; Thu, 02 Sep 93 12:11:43 EDT Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 10:35:06 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: TECH: specifity & definiteness X-To: Lojban List To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: <9309011714.AA17571@relay1.UU.NET> from "jimc@math.ucla.edu" at Sep 1, 93 10:14:59 am Status: O X-Status: la kartyr. djim. cusku di'e > le djatru fa kurji The Lord will provide Er, how's that again? "djatru" = "food-governor". If that is supposed to represent English "hlaefweard" > "hlaford" > "lord", it's probably wrong: you need "nabybandu" or at most "djabandu". If it means something else, I don't get it. Anyhow, it's a lousy lujvo for "Lord", capital "L". In the same spirit, how about "mujytru"? Also "fa" is Old Loglan; you want "ba", as in "balvi". -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.