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[lojban] Re: Hmmm? (was: Re: Re: "free time" == "le ni mi cando")



* Thursday, 2004-05-20 at 10:51 - Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>:

> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:58:00AM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > 
> > > .y. na go'i
> > >
> > > (Is there a Lojbanic equivalent of a thoughtful "Hmmmm..."?)
> > 
> > paunai xu go'i
> 
> That doesn't match for me at all.  Note that the ? was not part of the
> English emoticon.
> 
> "Hmmmm..." means "I am carefully considering this issue.  Give me a
> second."

How about just {.uanai} for the current lack of understanding, and
{re'inai} for the "give me a second".

So {.uanai re'inai .y.y.y. .ua na go'i}.

mu'o mi'e maten.