[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban stuff

["la cuncuxnas." <thatskotkid@gmail.com>]

Hah!

Much in the fashion that multiplication by one is assumed to be hanging
around any number in math, zo'e is so often overlooked in my Lojban
usage that I forget it can be included at will, as well as excluded.  This is something to consider!

mu'omi'e cuncuxnas.

On 8/13/05, Sunnan <sunnan@handgranat.org> wrote:

la cuncuxnas. wrote:

> coi rodo
>
> Still working on Just So Stories on and off.  I finished Lojban for
> Beginners, which tipped me off to some nice grammatical cleanups (like
> using the FA cmavo to pull the continuing dialogue trick ( i.e. "But,"
> he said, "it's too late.")), which in turn got me revising what I
> already had.  Very near the beginning of The Beginning of the
> Armadillos, there's a bit about a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog who eats
> "shelly snails and things."  I used {lo calku cakcurnu} for "shelly
> snails," but the "and things" really threw me for a loop.  Right now
> I've got {.e lo simsa} stuck in there.  Is there a generic Lojban word
> for things?  Stuff?  Anything of that nature?


While the "and things" are logically superfluous, {ri citka lo calku
cakcurnu .e zo'e} comes to mind.