From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Jul 14 22:42:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 15 Jul 2001 05:42:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 96110 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2001 05:42:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Jul 2001 05:42:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Jul 2001 05:42:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6F5gQW14104 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 01:42:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 01:42:25 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Imperative In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8594 On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la cein cusku di'e > > >ko tavla fo la lojban. > > > >means "Speak in lojban!" > > > >but how do you say > > > >"Make the bird speak in lojban!" > > A direct translation would be: > > ko gasnu le nu le cipni cu tavla fo la lojban Rather than wrapping the desired bridi in a le nu, you can state the bridi and append "bai ko" (forced by you) ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!