[lojban-beginners] Re: What's up?

[Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz>]

Newton, Philip wrote:

> la cuncuxnas. cu cusku di'e
>  
>
> > Ever since I read the Lojban for Beginners lesson on question
> > words, {ma mo ma} has been in my head, just kind of floating
> > around.  The only use I could think of for it was a general
> > "HUH?!?" kind of expression.  But it just occurred to me that
> > that'd be a great way to say, "What's up?" "What's going on?"
> > and the like.  Does anyone out there agree?  Can you think of
> > any other uses for {ma mo ma}, or other ways to say "How goes
> > it?"  I'll be glad to hear what you think.
> >    
>
> If you like {ma mo ma}, I suggest you have a look at
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=What+Does+It+Mean%3F and look
> for {.i pei xu cu'e xo ma mo} (without the braces) .u'i
>
>  
xu ro da ro de zo'u ma poi da mo ma poi de gi'anai da du de ?

mi'e .maik

(p.s. In English incase I got it wrong: must those "ma"s refer to the 
same thing? I mean, would "ma mo ma" refer to "tell me a brivla and x1 
and x2 of that brivla where x1 and x2 are equal"?)