Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0s9xau-0009acC; Fri, 12 May 95 19:29 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id CDD66D41 ; Fri, 12 May 1995 18:29:38 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 12:29:50 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: TEXT: le gunse ku joi le lorxu X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 579 Lines: 20 la djan cusku di'e > la xorxes. cusku di'e > > > Why not? I don't like the many irrelevant places of {klama}, but what > > can I do? Any suggestions for how to say "go around the oven"? > > "mluni le toknu". i mluni le toknu ma ma The extra places of {mluni} are even more weird than those of {klama}! Otherwise it would be a great way to say it. (How are those places filled anyway? Why does {mluni} have a place for "characteristics", whatever they are, and {klama} doesn't? How are orbital parameters x4 specified? Wouldn't space tenses work much better for that?) Jorge