On Sat= , Apr 23, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Marjorie Scherf <skaryzgik@gmail.com> wrote:

Firstly, yes, I'm trying to get back in= to things. School happened, stuff happened, and most of the time both were = happening at the same time. But now I'm trying to get back into this. I= 've revived my twitter and started a tumblr and Blip.fm and flickr, and= in my recent communications saw another style of signature, and I was wond= ering how this works. You make a very good point, as do Alex and Pierre. I = thank all of you very much for the clarification. .uicai

.i mu'o mi'e la .jdakrat.skaryzgik.

On Sat= , Apr 23, 2011 at 21:09, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> = wrote:

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Marjorie S= cherf <skaryzgik@gmail.com> wrote:

It appears that common practice for ending emails is to have {mu'o mi&#= 39;e _______ } =A0where "________" is the name, but I recently no= ticed an email signature in which the writer used {mi'e ________ mu'= ;o} which, once I thought about it, seems to make more sense. If {mu'o}= is supposed to signal the end of the transmission, anything after that wou= ld be disregarded, and the self-introduction conventionally put at the end = of emails and letters, if put after the {mu'o} instead of before, would= seem to be excluded from the message. So when I actually think about it, i= t seems like {mi'e _________ mu'o} would make more sense than the m= ore common {mu'o mi'e ________ } I more commonly see. I'm wonde= ring whether my friend has has an insight missed by the majority of the mos= t=A0vocal lojbanists, or if there is some reason for the common form that I= have not yet considered.

.i mi'e la .jdakrat.skaryzgik. mu'o
=

Firstly, are you the same skaryzgik that hasn't been on= here in a very, very long time?

Secondly, mu'o is much like the= English "Sincerely,". Anything that comes after it is not to be = taken as pertaining to the conversation.

Jon Jones,
Sincerely

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mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be d= enpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I = am your father. :D )

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