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[lojban] Newbie says hi



coi me'u ctefan-kox.
 
mi nanmu dotco .i xabju la cnino bramalsi poi tcadu be'a la hamburg pe'e lu'a le pa karce cacra .i mi jbena fi le detri be li re pi'e pare pi'e pasobici
 
 
So I hope my attempt of introduction is understandable. It leads me to two questions though.
 
How does lojban handle names with more than one part (for example birth and family name)? Using hyphens seem unlojbanic to me but making a pause is AFAIK not allowed within a name.
 
How can I say "I'm 18 years old." I didn't find an appropriate brivla. And expressing my birthdate seems unhandy.
 
 
Two more questions that came to my mind while reading the reference grammar:
 
When I use co-conversion of tanru within a description, do I have to terminate the sumti to prevent other arguments of the bridi to run into the description? I think they will but the gramar doesn't say so explicitly.
 
 
The last thing is more an idea:
 
Could "se'inai" be used with to mark somebody else's definitions, exspectations etc.? If so "ti'e" and "za'a" might be used to mark how one came to know of that person's opinions.
 
mu'omi'e ctefan.

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