Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:07:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DDUdM-00071t-Fi for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:40:24 -0800 Received: from genamics.blastula.net ([205.214.85.184]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.44) id 1DDUdJ-00071k-KY for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:40:24 -0800 Received: from [203.184.6.97] (helo=gulik.co.nz) by genamics.blastula.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DDUdC-00038O-Ll for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:40:16 +1200 Message-ID: <423F3F3D.70202@gulik.co.nz> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:40:13 +1200 From: Michael van der Gulik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040216 Debian/1.6.x.1-10 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg References: <200503182133.j2ILXvTd017432@mole.e-mol.com> <20050318214702.GR26000@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <423B563B.1050907@gulik.co.nz> <537d06d00503192224569e90fb@mail.gmail.com> <423E562B.7070505@gulik.co.nz> <20050321073703.GO29806@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20050321073703.GO29806@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - genamics.blastula.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - chain.digitalkingdom.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gulik.co.nz X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1290 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: mikevdg@gulik.co.nz Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 1380 Robin Lee Powell wrote: >On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:05:47PM +1200, Michael van der Gulik wrote: > > >>Philip Newton wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:29:15 +1300, Michael van der Gulik >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Incidentally, Vulcan speak a dialect of Lojban without the >>>>emotional parts of selma'o UI. >>>> >>>>.u'i mi'e maik. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>.u'i ki'a .i mi na djuno le valsi .i ri na cmima le ma'oste >>> >>>zo'o mu'o mi'e .filip. >>> >>> >>ki'a mi na jimpe .i do na djuno ma poi valsi >> >> > >zo .u'i .i la .filip. cu zgagau zo .u'i se pi'o zo ki'a > > > >>.i xu do na jimpe du'u smuni lu .u'i li'u >> >> > >la .filip. go'i .i ku'i zdile cusku > > > >>.i xu de'u me se xamgau >> >> > >ko vimcu zo me .i ku'i drani > > > >>.i lu ma'oste li'u lujvo ma >> >> > >zoi zoi cmavo list zoi > > je'e ro di'u (can you use "ro" like that?) .i'o fa piso'i fe mi cu vamji le nu ... drani ... I give up. "I appreciate the corrections". I know quite a few of the words, but its still a challenge to put them all together. Although I must say that its easier than using a foreign language - in Lojban you can just sit there and logically work out how a sentence should be put together rather than relying on a vast number of illogical idioms and irregular usages of words. mi'e .maik