From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Fri May 12 18:06:19 1995
Date:         Fri, 12 May 1995 12:41:35 EDT
From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Questions
To: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@access.digex.net>
Message-ID: <EJU0Lj1uLAB.A.yyE.2t0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org>

la djan cusku di'e

> la xorxes. cusku di'e
>
> > {ki'e danfu} means "thank you Answer", i.e. you are using {danfu} as
> > a name. Probably you meant {i ckire fi tu'a le danfu}
>
> No, "ki'e danfu" means "ki'e lo danfu"; old-timers will recognize this as
> the "Hey, girl with the red hair" problem ("joi xunkrexli").

What's the difference? You mean that instead of "name" I should have
said that it's the vocative case of "answer"?  That's what I meant
to say by "using it as a name".

Jorge