From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Mon Sep 09 07:33:41 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=neofelis.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17oPbe-00062Z-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:33:38 -0700 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id F065C3C479; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:33:06 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Pierre Abbat To: "Newton, Philip" , "'lojban-list@lojban.org'" Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Translation comments requested Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:33:04 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0209091033040F.02338@neofelis> X-archive-position: 995 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Monday 09 September 2002 10:23, Newton, Philip wrote: > mi cusku di'e > > > I, Nephi, said > > [...] > > > mi noi se cmene zo nefis. cusku > > Is there a better way to express this? Can I use "mi goi la nefis."? Or > does {goi} only work with KOhA? Or some other cmavo along the lines of > "equivalently" or "also known as"? {mi} is in KOhA, so that's grammatical. It sounds funny, though. Either it means "I'm going to call myself Nephi (which may not be my real name)" or it means "I'm going to refer to Nephi as me (though he may be someone else)". I'd use {no'u}. phma