[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello there!

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:12:25 -0500 (EST), Peter TB Brett
<peter@peter-b.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> la Robin Lee Powell fo le samymri cu cusku fe di'e:
> 
> > You need a "cu" before "cusku".  Other than that, I think it's fine,
> > although we usually use "samymri" for sending e-mail.
> 
> Oops, yep, missed the fact I'd put two {bridi} next to each other.

Not quite -- you put two {brivla} next to each other. The {bridi} is
the entire statement, or relation between the arguments; a {brivla} is
a word which can be a {selbri}, i.e. the term expressing the
relationship, the turning-point, as it were. {le samymri} contains a
{brivla} but it is not a {selbri}, while {cusku} is the {selbri} of
the {bridi} you tried to write.

...confused yet? :)

> What's the origin of the two forms of quite a few {bridi}?

Assuming you mean {brivla} again... what two forms do you mean? For
one of them, do you mean things such as {bri} from {bridi}? Those are
{rafsi}, used when several brivla are compounded into a {lujvo}. A bit
like forming "geology" from "geo-" + "-logy" in English.

> I'm working through the (excellent) lessons you've written, but I would
> have expect the Lojban for "Hi!" and "Thank you" to have come up much
> earlier!

They're {coi} and {ki'e}, respectively, in case you hadn't come across
them yet. You can add a name to either, as {coi .adam.} or {ki'e
.camgusmis.}.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>