From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:51:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 7191 invoked from network); 21 Feb 1997 23:59:39 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 21 Feb 1997 23:59:39 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <3.24542822@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 0:59:38 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:48:19 -0600 Reply-To: Steven Belknap Sender: Lojban list From: Steven Belknap Subject: daily terms X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 828 Lines: 24 Message-ID: If one were to specifically wish you good morning, (that is, to explicitly refer to morning), would it be correct to say: a'o leti cerni cu xamgu do (gloss: Let there be hope that this-here morning is good for you.) Of course, to some extent such greetings are fuzzily idiomatic, and <.i coi cerni> might be the way to go. (I am suggesting here that idiom in lojban might be based on very compact statements which are incomplete in themselves, but acquire meaning through usage.) Thoughts? -Steven PS Some may notice that I have stopped using instead of <'>. I have been persuaded by the idea that <'> represents an intraword pause, and have decided to abandon . At least for now. Steven Belknap, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria