Re: [lojban-beginners] "Here"

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:01 AM, .alyn.post. <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 03:15:15PM +0100, Remo Dentato wrote:
> On Saturday, February 5, 2011, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 February 2011 07:15:16 Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> >> Is it reasonable to imply "here" with {zvati}?  e.g. {mi zvati} for "I'm
> >> here".  Is it much better to use {bu'u} somehow?
> >
> > It can be implicit, but to be explicit I'd say "mi zvati ti". "mi bu'u zvati"
> > means "I am where I am"
>
> I would say {bu'uku mi zvati} for "Here I am!"
>
> remod
>

I spent a fair bit of time speaking in Lojban to my nearest
available 1 year old, and one phrase I hadn't quite figured
out is "come here!"

I gather that I could say: "ko bu'umi zvati"

Good?  Is there something better?  I think I've been hung up
on this one by the short and imperative nature of the English
statement.

-Alan
--
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi

"Come here!"? {ko klama ti}, of course. ;)

-- 
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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