[lojban-beginners] Re: greetings

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

do you mean http://www.lojban.org/tiki/phrasebook ?

"how are you?" is kind of a weird _expression_.  In english it can mean a lot of different things depending on tone etc...  Some rough equivalent are:

{xu do kanro}  (literally "are you healthy") which represents more of that english way of saying "how are you" in a concerned tone.
{do mo}  (literally, "you do what") which is more like "what are you up to?"
{ma mo} (literally, "who does what") which is something like "what's up"?

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM, <sunrise2000@comcast.net> wrote:

Alexandre Dezotti <dezotti.alexandre@gmail.com> writes:

> How do we do the basic greetings ?
>  i mean something like :
> "hello, my name is rolf. How do you do?"
> or
> "how are you ?"
> etc.
> Is there a reference for that ?

There is purported to be a Lojban phrasebook somewhere, although I
have personally never seen it.

"How are you?"

How about {do ca mo lifri}?  Loosely translated: "How's your life?"
Is that likely to be understood?