Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NieTi-0004Oj-S4 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:49:55 -0800 Received: from mail-ew0-f223.google.com ([209.85.219.223]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NieTb-00048r-HQ for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:49:50 -0800 Received: by mail-ew0-f223.google.com with SMTP id 23so870676ewy.4 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:49:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZUDby592aQZ1Wk697vnx5emYOO7I3Bbr/BNEKcALmtI=; b=Hqk1gIQAyvfV0G+N/8n8fCsDFJ5CQJKj74lJnDtqXEGZb2Eb1DTSCIS8n1tuh8Ivaa dZAYj6UFUdJ3WkhhlKHFZyfqKJUw+VD9z7kIGiq2MCu6upwi7ApK9s/P51I+XZMod+y3 dvQb+iDHW08G5fmP70shGVNtIriIRbXScXY+c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=I1oKjlKuwjIFZkFPiyQS1J0CV1DlHMCaLr3nNrp1sDcax/F+7qcdOOnxpLwjZr0HI5 PMfZ3XMj/Ea487kBcOL7cnK4IrnypuCZ01O4cYu/FwNAa9D/2hZsa6zUe/0SOQj3PUWA y35Fd8kqnbqFUgL/2VqdrC4c6kscJB3hZuwrU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.103.133 with SMTP id k5mr5995999ebo.76.1266630586792; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:49:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1f1080831002191749n2903ddabt95972b2abf3761d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <1f1080831002181721w425a462dpd6cdae84a97b4d0f@mail.gmail.com> <20100219014246.GY19917@digitalkingdom.org> <1f1080831002181825s174b3e2dicc8251571742e6dd@mail.gmail.com> <1f1080831002191639m14515b3fibe33935505caade@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561002191722w12222fe7l2ebd9cc4a93a8b66@mail.gmail.com> <20100220012854.GI19917@digitalkingdom.org> <1f1080831002191749n2903ddabt95972b2abf3761d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:49:46 -0500 Message-ID: <1f1080831002191749h74972f6ja51226039ed10d3a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Not needing terminators From: Ian Johnson To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 2863 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: blindbravado@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 1402 Scratch that last bit, just saw what Jorge said. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Ian Johnson wrote: > I know; as I said I intentionally made that a bit more clunky than was > necessary to make sure I actually knew what I was doing here. (If I > had really wanted to practice terminators I would've put every single > one in.) I know there are better ways to do that; just from LfB I knew > to use cu when possible. > > I really like that structure, though; that's considerably better than > the not-clunky structure that I had in mind. > > By the way, you changed it to "ba na'e"; is there a word order for > this sort of thing anywhere? > > mu'omi'e latros. > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:22:55PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote: >>> With "na" you don't need the first "kei", as "na" will force the >>> closing of the second "lo nu". If you go with "ba na'e nandu", I >>> find "cu ba na'e nandu" more clear than using "kei". >> >> Yeah, always use cu if you can. >> >> -Robin >> >> -- >> They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." >> And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something >> other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz >> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ >> >> >> >> >