Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:55:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711260155.UAA05737@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Sender: Lojban list From: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Subject: Re: What the *%$@ does "nu" mean? X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 565 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Nov 25 20:55:21 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Lojbab: >I certainly can observe loka datka sovda. >Whether we choose to look at the >fact that a duck laid the egg or that we have examined the genetic material >of the cell nucleus and determined it to be duck chromosomes, or whatever >otyher things we might need to determine to tell whether it might or might n >ot be a duck egg. Since you're unfortunately not saying it in Lojban is hard to know what you mean. {mi viska lo ka datka sovda} is pe'i nonsense. {mi viska le nu ta ckaji lo ka datka sovda} is meaningful. Which one did you mean? co'o mi'e xorxes