Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MEnbV-0003dE-UT for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:58:18 -0700 Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MEnbO-0003cu-5a for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:58:17 -0700 Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so132767fxm.34 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:58:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5w0lt+oHyAq9hk4pqPxbAXCFyvdGQ3IWmWIt8a218W4=; b=cavz1hgaqufSaYK3daCl3lZX9zpHGc4TN5EYh1qp//k+K6F2YYqmLfm93qzVPYOLBj MPYUHRayHrk9QD362Sd4xL8aueosFlbFFntcc0p3P9Ikr4aatsDTrMAU+iQmFs/RNVoC wtMzhVvFV5+ge9HjzKR6HowkZoak0X9tCvC9g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Jfl1OXOD7equ1XnYz3auztqM51xTKkiOlMiWUIjF4wFFaTletkpHQzjVRYTrL3ypK7 Lwrfx/wBmx/0fEvUdXGXA79NM0X5F/ZxvPqTeIqLTOd5xQmUlTlItgoVTBm3rdHxccSC 19iIGQ91Zsw+Ip5rcaO1k9FrSS8CqToSmwTzA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.177.18 with SMTP id e18mr964589mup.78.1244739482768; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:58:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5715b9300906110842v33ed5d97w139159ba7bd6e2a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <4de8c3930906110500m1a122b3bwcfb5a08a277fedd@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560906110552x1a8e81cawee284049da2ed3e1@mail.gmail.com> <4de8c3930906110832w79b99aeal8228336a4d0715fe@mail.gmail.com> <5715b9300906110842v33ed5d97w139159ba7bd6e2a0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:58:02 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: de7e6e5e0debb76a Message-ID: <4de8c3930906110958i1eaea356k293cfd64cae11d2c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: letter-spacing and uppercase From: tijlan To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 1813 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jbotijlan@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 535 2009/6/11 Luke Bergen : > Way off topic but, in practical use what are the differences between > "ta'onai" and "ji'a"? > > In english I might say "the dog is white.  Also, the dog bites".  I could > see using "ta'onai" or "ji'a" to translate this, which would be more > appropriate? > > - Luke Bergen .i ta'o [ incidental utterance ] .i ta'onai [ main utterance ] .i [ main utterance ] .i ji'a [ incidental or possibly main utterance ] Your English example seems to be the case of "ji'a". mu'o mi'e tijlan