From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Feb 28 13:50:22 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18osOV-0005lh-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:50:15 -0800 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:50:15 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Any (was: Nick will be with you shortly) Message-ID: <20030228215015.GC17252@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030228210827.GB17252@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 4246 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:11:40PM -0500, Craig wrote: > >> >> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:23:55PM -0500, Craig wrote: > >> >> So, you think da is specific, do you? I can't work with you. > >> >> Carry on. > >> > >> >Straight out of the book: > >> > >> >4.2) da poi prenu zo'u da viska la djim. > >> > There-is-an-X which is-a-person : X sees Jim. > >> > Someone sees Jim. > >> > >> But if you ask for da poi prenu zo'u da viska la djim to become > >> true, you won't care who sees Jim, right? > > >Tell me how to ask for that in lojban, and I'll see about answering > >the question. > > .i bai ko le du'u da poi prenu zo'u da la djim viska ku cu jetnu That isn't a question, that's a command. If I were to execute said command, then yes, I would assume that any prenu would do. However, I wouldn't be completely surprised if the commander turned out to have a different se jetnu in mind. Note, however, that the original discussion was about nitcu, with the x3 unspecified. That makes *all* the difference to me. > Easy even for us relative beginners. Sorry, I meant I wanted to see exactly how you phrased it. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi