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Re: [lojban] To be polite in lojban.



On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Opi Lauma wrote:


Hello,

Can you tell me how to say in lojban {Hello},
{Goodbye}, {Thanks}, {Pleas}, and {Excuse my}.

You can use vocatives :

{coi} for "hello"
{co'o} for "goodbye"
{ki'e} for "thanks"
{pe'u} for "please"
{ta'a} for "excuse me" (depends on context really)

see :

http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less12voc.html

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mi'e .ian.xek.