Re: [lojban-beginners] "Here"

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

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

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