From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Oct 07 11:05:59 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 96313 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 18:05:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m18.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Oct 2003 18:05:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2003 18:05:58 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1A6wDd-0001se-DD for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:05:57 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A6wCo-0001ru-VM; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:05:07 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tmailb1.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.168.141]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A6wCN-0001rV-Bc for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:04:39 -0700 Received: from modem-229.rhino.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.96.229] helo=thedave.homelinux.org) by tmailb1.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1A6wC8-0008Qq-08 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:04:24 +0100 Received: from thedave.homelinux.org (IDENT:1001@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thedave.homelinux.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h97J3nxC002831 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:03:50 GMT Received: from localhost (martin@localhost) by thedave.homelinux.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id h97J3mOi002828 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:03:48 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: thedave.homelinux.org: martin owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:03:47 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: martin@thedave.homelinux.org To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: consolation In-Reply-To: <3F82FC0B.20629.1E91513@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 6369 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mbays@freeshell.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Martin Bays From: Martin Bays Reply-To: mbays@freeshell.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20851 On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Philip Newton wrote: > On 7 Oct 2003 at 8:31, Llambías wrote: > > > How would you say "x1 consoles/comforts x2", in Lojban? > > > > I have used {surgau} for this, but I'm not convinced > > this is quite it. Any better ideas? > > toldrigau? Maybe, but "console" isn't really {to'e badri gasnu}, nor is it quite {to'e ke badri gasnu}. How about {dristigau}? Or {drimulgau}, which might have different connotations? mu'o mi'e maten.