From sentto-44114-2535-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Fri May 05 14:39:50 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 17667 invoked from network); 5 May 2000 14:39:35 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 5 May 2000 14:39:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 27160 invoked by uid 40001); 5 May 2000 14:40:24 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 27157 invoked from network); 5 May 2000 14:40:24 -0000 Received: from ch.egroups.com (207.138.41.144) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 5 May 2000 14:40:24 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2535-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.37] by ch.egroups.com with NNFMP; 05 May 2000 14:40:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 18833 invoked from network); 5 May 2000 14:40:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 May 2000 14:40:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.61) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 May 2000 14:39:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 71464 invoked by uid 0); 5 May 2000 14:39:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20000505143959.71463.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.176.48.27 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 05 May 2000 07:39:58 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.27] To: lojban@egroups.com From: "michael helsem" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 07:39:58 PDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Intro and questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >From: Taral li'o >.i mi cilre fi la lojban. i .e'o ro ko fraxu mi le se srera >(I'm still learning lojban. Please forgive my mistakes.) > >What is the best way to express the English 'still' part of that? And how >would I express the idiomatic "I'm _far from_ perfect"? > li'o stidi lu mi ca'o cilre li'u .a lu mi tadni li'u (I suggest 'I continue to learn...' or 'I study...') .iji'a go'i lu to'e prane li'u .a lu srera mutce li'u .a lu di'inai gendra li'u (Also, '(I'm) Opposite-of perfect', 'Err much', or 'Irregularly grammar-correct'.) .i to'u cuxna zo'u le bangu cu vrici (Your choice; the language is various.) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com