Received: from mail-ye0-f189.google.com ([209.85.213.189]:47273) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TiEPJ-0006Fh-7K; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:19 -0800 Received: by mail-ye0-f189.google.com with SMTP id r9sf2577784yen.16 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version: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=KXkPZhJKGSmjMY1rswy43VgL1Y/+xLDGbQL5Htm90Dg=; b=uXJe06NLtMU3WbgzG3b4FJj3Td+v9eOMLaQe5kakgI4Ewo5yNdzNQvUvMYlQDJv0Rv GLp61qHx7oecGb4EPnfqgcMTydgA/l1JO1My5iywz5WiLoSngoOmReSXxSncErbzXmNC ZJ+s90bGVX/wF89QqT0Vs3Rx8XCFL3bbaUJsdd/uju0wmF5iSu5UjQ1AOtrRWBjsB1QO voTaw/AYBvPctm1SyONcU+Mrwvylt2cWDn+1/2SBOEynrfAS/8IuWahXRSAoFPpJvWFE PrQ3Bb3deSoA75ie9HB3kOH2e8PZUarUVoJu9/VhifIaXnFw2D6ZkedhkNORqhdMHUes kxYw== Received: by 10.49.94.143 with SMTP id dc15mr3582464qeb.32.1355188387080; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:07 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.49.81.100 with SMTP id z4ls34608qex.4.gmail; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.134.232 with SMTP id s68mr11392789yhi.31.1355188385803; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.134.232 with SMTP id s68mr11392787yhi.31.1355188385794; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from chausie ([2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id u20si1031032anj.3.2012.12.10.17.13.05; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) client-ip=2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5; Received: from caracal.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDB03371 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:13:05 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Why no "about" brivla? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:13:08 -0500 Message-ID: <12228668.dr3RT8PEuU@caracal> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.5 (Linux/3.2.0-32-generic; KDE/4.8.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <33272af0-7522-44d7-a040-e451bf851595@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: phma@bezitopo.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) smtp.mail=phma@bezitopo.org 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: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / Content-Length: 808 On Monday, December 10, 2012 18:30:58 Annie wrote: > I'm confused. I've been told that NU is like parentheses, so what's the big > deal? what do you guys mean when you talk about something being the > default? The parentheses are to ... toi (for parenthetical remarks), ke ... ke'e (in tanru), and vei ... ve'o (in mathematical expressions). NU makes a subordinate clause. Pierre -- sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera -- 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.