Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:15:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LbIrd-0002rz-WD for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:15:42 -0800 Received: from mx.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.19] helo=sdf.lonestar.org ident=root) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LbIra-0002rp-Dr for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:15:41 -0800 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@sverige.freeshell.org [192.94.73.4]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1MIFaw1002757 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:15:36 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.2/8.12.8/Submit) id n1MIFZVI003127 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:15:35 GMT Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:15:35 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: nursery rhyme Message-ID: <20090222181534.GA21895@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <5715b9300902220805m114bff5dlafd5826a24951987@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5715b9300902220805m114bff5dlafd5826a24951987@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1354 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 673 de'i li 22 pi'e 02 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > jersi > jersi > mi jersi do .skamyxatra You need to separate sentences with "{.i}." > mi jersi do mu'i mo That should be "{mu'i ma}." "{mo}" is the {selbri} interrogative, while "{ma}" is the {sumti} interrogative. > goi mu'i do ____ mi I'm not sure what you're trying to attach "{goi}" to here (or even if you're using it remotely properly), but "{mu'i}," when used as a {sumti tcita}, must be followed by a {sumti}, usually one that uses an abstraction. In this case, it seems that you want "{mu'i lonu do ____ mi}." mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- mi na se finti fi tu'a lo vi munje