[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello All

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

On Monday 30 April 2007 19:19, Spencer Shepard wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a CS and Math student at UC Davis and I just signed up yesterday.  I
> just have a quick question about what very little I have learned so far.
>
> I know "le blanu" would be "the blue thing" and that "ti" means "this" (or
> sometimes "here"?), so would "le ti blanu" be the right way to say "this
> blue thing"?  Right now, I'm reading the "Lojban for Beginners" PDF.  If
> anyone has suggestions of other ways I might learn, please let me know.

"this blue thing" is "ti poi blanu", "ti noi blanu" (actually "this, which is 
blue"), or "le vi blanu". "le ti blanu" means "this one's blue thing". "vi" 
is a spatial tense marker; in Lojban, tense indicates both space and time, 
and can even indicate direction of motion. Try figuring out "mo'i ni'a xance 
ko".

Pierre