Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.213.189]:32876) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SA2lr-0002CL-Vj; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:23:00 -0700 Received: by yenm3 with SMTP id m3sf280879yen.16 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:22:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:message-id:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=MhbXFJXCc5OJQTOjrDQqrP+c84Ydnyxe4iqqDiaeB9Y=; b=MrnL2PX/bTVmyNahJUzFfVVHY2boj+q+JO6l+C478Gi20wdFT0d3o8JDLkeVAW2oXZ ZczixVA29d3PAy8ZowO8g9xcKO8A1aSfEy2syhB9wN0WwvRmQxKg9mLrU7kGd5l10Sia TukAbYgSuT0taKHZmYxb98y0Eyaw5LhDSvK6k= Received: by 10.236.143.70 with SMTP id k46mr322666yhj.16.1332264148430; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:22:28 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.236.19.169 with SMTP id n29ls224340yhn.4.gmail; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.245.28 with SMTP id s28mr258591anh.6.1332264147801; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.245.28 with SMTP id s28mr258590anh.6.1332264147789; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chausie (cpe-069-132-101-103.carolina.res.rr.com. [69.132.101.103]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id k54si1288151yhh.5.2012.03.20.10.22.26; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 69.132.101.103 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@phma.optus.nu) client-ip=69.132.101.103; Received: from darner.ixazon.lan (darner.ixazon.lan [192.168.7.5]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B331216D6 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:22:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku} in speech ? Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:22:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (DragonFly/3.1-DEVELOPMENT; KDE/4.5.5; i386; ; ) References: <24143939.1398.1332138901295.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynnk21> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201203201322.23088.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Original-Sender: phma@phma.optus.nu X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 69.132.101.103 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@phma.optus.nu) smtp.mail=phma@phma.optus.nu Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / Content-Length: 1334 On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:00:23 Jonathan Jones wrote: > I didn't actually do the experimenting to determine such a thing myself, so > I really can't say exactly. > > However, your example is extremely contrived. I highly doubt that anyone > would talk about an event of an event of an event of an event in any > real-life situation, nor can I conceive of what such a thing is. I'm not > even sure of what an event of an event is, let alone the fourth iteration. > (lodu'u broda losi'o brode lonu brodi , on the other hand, at least makes > some sort of coherent sense to me, however.) Also, "nu" can be terminated by "kei". Years ago I came up with "lo nu punji lo sovda be lo cipnrkuku ku ku ku zvati lo zdani be lo na'e cipnrkuku ku ku", which is contrived to have the syllable "ku" five times in a row, but describes an actual event in the life cycle of a brood parasite. Pierre -- li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en.