From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Mon Jul 03 08:19:29 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20315 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2000 15:19:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Jul 2000 15:19:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO argo.bas.bg) (195.96.224.7) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Jul 2000 15:19:28 -0000 Received: from banmatpc.math.bas.bg (root@banmatpc.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.2]) by argo.bas.bg (8.11.0.Beta1/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) with ESMTP id e63FJPO18415 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:19:25 +0300 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA07491 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:19:22 +0300 Message-ID: <3960AF34.3335@math.bas.bg> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 18:20:20 +0300 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Opposite of za'o References: <39609360.c3.0@NewMail.Net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3387 Adam Raizen wrote: > Two hungry people sit down to eat. After having barely > started eating, and not passing any potential end, one > of them suddenly receives a message that they must leave > immediately. The second one protests: > > But I am still hungry. > i ku'i mi mo'unai xagji > > i.e. I have not gotten to the natural completion of my > being hungry. Which is just as well, since if being hungry has such a thing as a natural completion/termination point, it is starvation. (Cf. the German verb _verhungern_.) What he means to say, rather, is that he {co'unai xagji}, or else {mo'unai citka}. --Ivan