From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sat Dec 02 13:42:16 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 2 Dec 2000 21:42:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 36231 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2000 21:42:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Dec 2000 21:42:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hh.egroups.com) (10.1.10.40) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Dec 2000 21:42:11 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.2.230] by hh.egroups.com with NNFMP; 02 Dec 2000 21:42:11 -0000 Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 21:42:05 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: common words Message-ID: <90bqbd+5p86@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 967 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4937 reply to xorxes. (somehow cannot post an answer to your posting - getting failure messages all the time!) da tolcri le da zgike selsau [pendo] makau da facki fi le da zgike selsau [pendo] vi makau I like the idea of using {kau} here. But, as for {tolcri}, I somehow prefer using {facki} despite its place structure being less pleasing (is it symptomatic that _to lose_/{cirko} fits much better?): In my opinion, Lojban seems to somehow design a negative mirror-like counter-world: {cirko} -> {tolcri} - it's looking and sounding not badly, yet the concept behind!! {dapma} -> {toldapma} !!! {cliva} -> {tolcliva} What an advent! (le nuntolcliva pe la jegvon.) etc. Why not: {tolmro} instead of {jmive} ! I somehow wanted to *pick out* a piece of time/point of event for "One day.../It was then that..." (It was then that he lifted his axe and finally killed him... :-)): maybe it could be expressed with {.i co'iki ku...} co'o mi'e .aulun.