Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 15 May 2003 11:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19GN6K-000536-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:05:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:05:08 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to use "birti"/"jetnu"/"jinvi"/etc.? Message-ID: <20030515180508.GM3216@digitalkingdom.org> References: <200305151756.h4FHufT73664@mail.cjb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305151756.h4FHufT73664@mail.cjb.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 314 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 758 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:56:41AM -0600, c1tk@c1tk.cjb.net wrote: > coi rodo, > > What is the correct way to use gismu such as "birti", "jetnu", > "jinvi" which involve a full-blown assertion as one of their > arguments? E.g. how do I transform a statement like "Saddam is > evil" ("la sadam. palci") into "I think Saddam is evil"? What > should I put as the x2 to "jinvi"? mi jinvi le du'u la xusein. palci (What, you know him on a first-name basis? 8). -Rboni -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui