From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jul 22 15:45:36 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G4QDj-00009x-Bw for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:45:15 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G4QDh-00009f-BB for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:45:15 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1111377nfc for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:45:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; b=l0D/uTAXyG0/25HT52LHrpOOjNUioHWklLzIGYOydwcUcq1DbB4pb7xwK3Gl1TsUnjnH8w5SUc5Asx7aueJhH9asoaqOT6F9zQ2cmkeKOW4PyksOHq3JIIPfsPbtBvrtYQSkDcP2I3D/ikxcoYhEu/DAlDKnGHIbHAZVQyACh90= Received: by 10.78.122.11 with SMTP id u11mr952137huc; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.33.3 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12d58c160607221545x6b4d8a0fndb6b30737773b5b1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:45:11 -0400 From: "komfo,amonan" To: "Lojban list" Subject: [lojban] "How deep is your love?" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_106571_15098488.1153608311667" X-Google-Sender-Auth: b308a953d8533172 X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) X-archive-position: 12260 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: komfoamonan@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_106571_15098488.1153608311667 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I have a question about the use of "how?" in abstract scales. What is the Lojban for "How beautiful is her house?" "How strong is that coffee?" Here's the problem as I see it. The answers to these questions are simple & take the form: lo zdani po ko'a cu mutce melbi lo zdani po ko'a cu milxe melbi lo zdani po ko'a cu je'a melbi lo zdani po ko'a cu no'e melbi lo zdani po ko'a cu na'e melbi lo zdani po ko'a cu to'e melbi A question like lo zdani po ko'a cu mo melbi could yield the first two responses, but also myriad others. Also, I don't think there's a question word that invites a response from NAhE. So how beautiful is her house? How deep is your love? i mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan ------=_Part_106571_15098488.1153608311667 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I have a question about the use of "how?" in abstract scales. What is the Lojban for "How beautiful is her house?" "How strong is that coffee?" Here's the problem as I see it. The answers to these questions are simple & take the form:

lo zdani po ko'a cu mutce melbi
lo zdani po ko'a cu milxe melbi
lo zdani po ko'a cu je'a melbi
lo zdani po ko'a cu no'e melbi
lo zdani po ko'a cu na'e melbi
lo zdani po ko'a cu to'e melbi

A question like lo zdani po ko'a cu mo melbi could yield the first two responses, but also myriad others. Also, I don't think there's a question word that invites a response from NAhE.

So how beautiful is her house? How deep is your love?

i mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan

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