Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk1LT-0005Ex-IR for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:54:47 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.123]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk1LP-0005Ds-KZ for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:54:47 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090905195428625.YBYD29089@cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com> for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:54:28 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161E6B195 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:54:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: let us Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:54:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <9ada8ecd0909051155s627ec6b9v9a1282326ef54860@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9ada8ecd0909051155s627ec6b9v9a1282326ef54860@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909051554.25972.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2205 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 500 On Saturday 05 September 2009 14:55:17 Squark Rabinovich wrote: > * *Hello everyone! > What is the *lojban* for: "let's go to eat something"? > The English "let's" or "let us" is a sort of mixture of *ko* and *mi'o* : > on the one hand, it is a suggestion/request/command to do something, on the > other hand it refers to the speaker as well as the listener(s). I would > expect to find a *cmavo* with this meaning, but I didn't. You can say "e'o mi'o va citka" or "doi mi'o ko va citka". Pierre