From lojban-out@lojban.org Mon Sep 27 15:58:51 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 6345 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2004 22:58:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Sep 2004 22:58:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 2004 22:58:50 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CC4SG-0002nc-Al for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:58:48 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CC4Rh-0002n3-4A; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:58:13 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CC4RV-0002mA-9a for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:58:01 -0700 Received: by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix, from userid 72) id 996A326F5A; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:57:27 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [139.179.111.102] (ppp102.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.102]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6634726F17 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:57:25 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <41589CD4.7050001@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:05:56 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 8684 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: robin From: robin Reply-To: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Subject: [lojban] Re: simple question X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23092 MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > I want to (know how to) say, for example, "I want to read a book". > > Does "mi cukta tcidu djica" mean that? > Is something like "mi djica le nu mi tcidu lo cukta" more usual? > The second one is more standard, but I think the first one would work - it means "I book-read kind of desire." robin.tr -- Dawn: Do you know that ancient Sumerians do not speak English? Buffy: They're worse than the French! Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin