Return-Path: <@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sxAmL-0000ZOC; Mon, 25 Sep 95 12:28 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.12+Emil1.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA15572 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:28:53 +0200 Received: from CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (MAILER@CUNYVMV2) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V5.0-3 #2494) id <01HVOZRI8JE8000XBW@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> for veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 13:16:17 +0200 (EET) Received: from CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@CUNYVM) by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5484; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 10:40:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 17:38:22 +0300 From: Cyril Slobin Subject: Beginners question (was: Re: coi za'e jboterymri) In-reply-to: from <"jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU"@Mon> Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: Cyril Slobin Message-id: <01HVP0DUU8CO000XBW@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> Organization: Institute for Commercial Engineering Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 537 Lines: 17 coi Trying to read (and understand :-) some lojban posting I have found this: > i le do se ciska na mutce nitcu le nu cikre i ku'i lo do lojbo zirpu ki'a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I haven't found this pattern in The Draft Reference Grammar. :-( I guess it is equal to {le se ciska be do}. Am I right? And if yes, does the way to do the same thing with x3 etc. exists? co'o mi'e. kir. -- Cyril Slobin `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, `it means just what I choose it to mean'