Date: Fri, 22 Jul 94 15:09:15 EDT
From: jorge@phyast.pitt.edu
Message-Id: <9407221909.AA06494@clueless.phyast.pitt.edu>
To: veion@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: CAFE.TEXT:  vi le ckafybarja
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>    coi doi xorxes

coi doi veion
i ckire fi tu'a le pinka

>   I haven't had much time for Lojban during the last few days as I am
>   in between two 10-day vacations and things keep piling.
>  
>   A couple of notes, however.
> 
> > la xorxes nerkla le ckafybarja  .i noda zvati
> > .i vi nanca be li pa smaji  .i xy cy zvati noroi le purci  .i ku'i . .
> 
>   Took me a while to figure out "xy cy". Your style is quite
>   mathematical compared to the more customary use of the KOhA
>   series pro-sumti :_)

Now that you mention it, the way I wrote it is wrong. Should be {xy.boi cy},
otherwise, it's a single sumti.  

I'm becoming more convinced that lerfu is the way to go for pro-sumti,
because I find the process of assigning with goi too cumbersome for normal
conversation. I might change my mind though, it's just a matter of style.
I of course don't think of it as letters in English, but as pronouns, so 
that I think of xy here on the same level as "he" rather than "X".

> > .i lei jubme cu kandi zmadu  .i le ko'amru cu tolbasna na'e minrysarxe
>                                      ^^^^ -> ka'a, I think

Yes.

> > .i ua uanai li'a la se xebni fraktur
>                    la?

Yes, because it's {la fraktur}. What do you think of this way to
put an adjective to a name? I couldn't think of a better one.

> > .i tirna le kandi savru noi klama le gapru
>                                     fi le gapru?

Yes. Do you see any problem with {le savru cu klama}?

> [...]
> > .i ba'a da bazi vi kansa  .i ju'o
> > 
> > 
>   We'll see.

mi denpa le nu do tolcliva

Could you send me a copy of my post? I don't know what happened,
but I didn't get a copy, and I hadn't saved it. I wasn't even sure it
had made it to the list, I thought it was lost somewhere in cyberspace. :)

Jorge