From xod@sixgirls.org Mon Oct 08 10:15:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 8 Oct 2001 17:15:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 24078 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2001 17:15:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Oct 2001 17:15:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 8 Oct 2001 17:15:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f98HFi701227 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:15:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:15:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: Qualities and jei (was: Re: [lojban] A revised ce'u proposal involving si... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11461 On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la pycyn cusku di'e > > >While I disagree with Lojban that it was > >the most common use of {ka} in the old days, {leka mi prami do} and the > >like > >have a pefectly clear meaning and the one Lojbab set for them. It is not > >{le > >du'u ... ce'u ...} but rather the qualitative correlate of {le ni mi prami > >do} (and not {le jei mi prami do} neither). > > That's what {su'u} has been proposed for, if not much used, > as in "see how the three mice run!", {ko zgana le su'u le ci > smacu cu bajra}. > > >The appropriate things to put > >before {ka mi prmi do} are things like the Lojban for "madly, wildly, > >deeply" > >(take it, Michael!) or "wanly" or whatever is the property of my loving > >thee > >"How do I love thee," not "How much do I love thee" nor, as in the bad > >jokes, > >"In what ways do I love thee." > > Examples in Lojban would be useful. Adverbs are not Lojban's strong > point. ru'a A sutra bajra klama cei broda B .i xu le ka ce'u sutra bajra ku goi ko'a ka broda .i pe'i na go'i .i pe'i ko'a ka ce'u broda .i .uo -- It's said that Mullah Omar has met two non-Muslims in his life. Others say even that's not true. Sami ul-Haq, Osama bin Laden's closest friend in Pakistan, runs the "University for the Education of Truth," a fundamentalist institution that educated and trained nine out of the Taliban's top 10 leaders.