X-Digest-Num: 131 Message-ID: <44114.131.785.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:58:19 +0300 From: Robin Turner Subject: Re: coi roda X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 785 Content-Length: 1010 Lines: 26 Spigot wrote: > From: Spigot > > .i mi pu ru'inai jbobau tadni (I have intermittenly studied lojban) > .i mi pu de'a tadni ze'u (i stop studying for long periods of time) > .i mi pu di'a tadni so'oroi (i have resumed studying several times) > .i mi ca di'a tadni gi'e pe'i mi pu'i cusku .e'e bau la lojban. > (I am now resuming study and I seem to be able to competently speak > in lojban) .iku'i mi na'e djuno le jei mi dragensku > (however, i don't know how correct my grammar is) .ipe'i mi juxre cusku > (i think i speak clumsily) .i .ai mi co'a mrilu le tordu notci le jboste > (I want to start mailing short letters to the lojban list) .i mi ca mrilu > le pamoi notci (I'm now mailing the first letter) > .i pe'u ko ciksi le mi srera mi (please explain my mistakes to me.) {zo'o.iuro'a} I'll leave the correction to Jorge, our resident editor! Good use of event contours, though - could I use this when I get round to writing the lesson on tenses? co'o mi'e robin.