From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Mon Nov 15 05:34:30 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 10:36:15 -0500 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 10:36:10 -0500 Message-Id: <199311151536.AA07053@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0559; Mon, 15 Nov 93 10:35:53 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 1800; Mon, 15 Nov 93 10:35:05 EDT Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 10:34:30 EST Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: more Eaton, anyone? To: nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: RO X-Status: la nitcion na jimpe le mintu be le te zukte se cusku be mi > #> #la nitcion cpedu le pinka > #> .i go'i .i na spaji fe lenu do puba sabji led'iu pinka vauvauzo'o > #frili fa le nu smadi le du'u mi ba zukte da kau i xu go'i > #i le nu go'i na xamgu mi va'o le drata be du'o do > > I think you've lost me. Oh, well. As I read in someone's .sig, miskomprenoj nur eblas inter samlingvanoj. > "It's easy to assume I intended to do something" --- ok. Not quite. "It's easy to guess what I'm going to do" Isn't this the right way to use "kau"? > "Is it?" What I think you intended is "Did I?" No, I intended "is it?", or "right?". > "My intending (presumably) to do so is not good for me in the context of > those other things, according to you." Sorry? "That (being easy to guess my future actions) is not good for me in that other context that you know about." Maybe I should have said {le du'u go'i li'o}? (What other context could that be, I'll leave that for you to figure out. :) > #(In any case, I prefer gugbarkrabe'i ) > Why do you persist in analysing your veljvo so carefully and perceptively? ;) Should I take that as a compliment? Jorge