Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyyMB-0002sP-T2 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:22:40 -0800 Received: by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix, from userid 72) id 2EC8A26F31; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:22:07 +0200 (EET) Received: from [139.179.111.110] (ppp110.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.110]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C915926EFF for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:21:59 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <420AD422.8040804@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:25:22 -0500 From: robin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "I understand Lojban" References: <12d58c16050209065714783b4c@mail.gmail.com> <4c4e58c105020908176eaa0549@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4c4e58c105020908176eaa0549@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 1125 X-Approved-By: robin@bilkent.edu.tr 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: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 1035 Evgeny Sklyanin wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:57:31 -0500, Adam COOPER wrote: > >>I understand Lojban. >> >>{mi jimpe fi lo jbobau} - doesn't quite seem to cut it, as it could >>just as well mean that the speaker understands the ideas behind >>Lojban, how it was devised, its history, (x3 = subject) without >>necessarily understanding what's being said. So... >> >>{mi jimpe ca lo nu lo jbobau cu ve tavla} - "I understand when Lojban >>is being spoken" ??? >> >>.e'o ko sidju mi .i ki'e rodo .i fe'o mi'e .adam. >> >> > > coi .adam. > > How about > > mi jimpe bau la lojban. > Wouldn't that mean that you understand something, and the language you understand it in is Lojban? robin.tr -- "I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is." -- Terry Pratchett Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin