[lojban-beginners] Playing with Order

[Travis Garris <ptg_thug@yahoo.com>]

Or... How Many Ways Can I Phrase the Same Question

Since I'm learning Lojban in silence and with little
practice, I'm having to reread chapters of the Lojban
for Beginners over and over again.  This isn't a bad
thing, but a little too much information sometimes can
be dangerous.

One of the exercises is translate "zdani do vi ma".  I
was thinking "Where do you live?", which is subtly
wrong.  Realizing the mistake, I started playing with
the phrase.  Hopefully each of the following are
identical in meaning, let me know if I'm wrong.

"vi ma zdani do" (do I need "cu" since nothing is in
x1?)
"vi ma do se zdani"
"do vi ma se zdani" (or should that me "se vi ma")
"do selzda vi ma" (fancy and shorter, but something
feels wrong)

Travis Garris
Norfolk, Va.


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