Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EKPbo-0003ji-KT for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:15:40 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.205]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EKPbj-0003j9-Ku for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:15:40 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s1so308556nze for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:15:34 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OGds6c2zYdCYvCOZ7rCIA9YnwGH2AKK6n93mWjUWZ/fAUmdI2MbpnfbXqD8REEFn3NnrsYPkakirs/Ugxn8KI9aMY9DaW+iYlr2map+awwG7ibLjDduqGgjRq/h/RHyvtU03u0iz6zsjiMAzkcySKjZooPzKeqscgpQFIVh9zFw= Received: by 10.54.144.4 with SMTP id r4mr552914wrd; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.66.3 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d175605092717155e757b5d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:15:34 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: go'i and pronous In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 2350 X-Approved-By: jjllambias@gmail.com 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: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 582 coi fi'i lisandros > if someone says to me "xu do prami mi" > can I say go'i to answer yes"mi prami do", Yes. >or will I be saying "do prami mi" ? > I mean, when I say go'i, are mi and do mapped to the meaning they have when said by me or they still function as if said by the person who is speaking to me? {go'i} retains the meaning, not the words. If you want to retain the words, then you can do so with {ra'o}: A: mi do prami B: go'i ra'o A: I love you B: Me too (i.e. and I love you) If B didn't use {ra'o} there they would be saying "yes, you do". mu'o mi'e xorxes