[lojban-beginners] Re: Gmail sucks; I moan in Lojban

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 04:31, Karl Naylor wrote:
> Was just trying to express this to myself in Lojban this morning, and
> wondered how well I was doing.
>
> .i la djimeil. co'u jorcu le ciska barna .iseri'abo mi ka'e ciska
> gi'enai .oiro'e na ka'e viska djuno ledu'u vi mokau cu ciska
>
> In particular I'm lamenting my lack of knowledge of computery words
> like "typing" (for now I'm using {ciska}), and wondering whether
> {ri'a} is applicable here, but any other comments would be welcome :)

jorcu ki'a?

You have a double negative {gi'enai na ka'e}. Is that what you mean?

For typing you can say {batkyci'a}, "write by pressing buttons".

phma