[lojban-beginners] Re: Feedback on phrases

[Bob Slaughter <rslau@mindspring.com>]

> co'e
> 
> (Aside: is this a reasonable thing to be posting on the list?  Is
> everyone bored by all this basic stuff?)

Good Lord, no; that's what this list was intended for, more basic questions 
about *learning* lojban.

> > > P.S.  How would one say "thanks in advance" (which is what I mean)?
> > 
> > There is no such fixed expresion yet.
> 
> Hmm.  I'll have to figure out some other appropriate expression.  But
> for now I can really say
> 
> ki'e do

Well, in some sense, "ki'e do" *does* mean "thanks in advance"; lojban 
defaults to tenselessness, so it combines basic "thanks" with "thanks in 
advance" in ways no English translation meets.


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