Re: [lojban] Re: zoi gy. Good Morning! .gy.

[Thimble Smith <tim@desert.net>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:33:56PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Thimble Smith wrote:
> >I know a culture where the standard greeting is "I de no?",
> >["Are you?"].  The response is, "Mi de, o" ["I am, uh-huh"].
> >Then the first person says, "I ko aki no?"  ["You came here?"],
> >and the response is, "Mi ko aki".  These phrases obviously aren't
> >literal questions and answers.
> 
> bau ma? .i mi sisku zoi xy. mi de ko aki .xy la gugl. i mi
> fakci fi lo ponjo .e lo lojbo .e lo me madjar.
> 
> co'omi'e pier.

Sorry, Pier.  I've only looked at lojban for a little bit, and
haven't had the time to learn any vocabulary beyond

  le gerku cu batci la tim.

:)

I think you're saying you looked in google for that phrase
and didn't find anything about it.  It's a language spoken in
Suriname, South America, called a Saamaka töngö (the saramacan
language).  The Saramacans were brought as slaves from Africa by
the Dutch, and escaped into the jungles of Suriname (formerly
Dutch Guiana).  The language is a mixture of dutch, english, some
african languages, and portugese.  I lived in Suriname for two
years when I was in high school (16-17 years old), and learned a
bit of the language.

    http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Suri.html#SRM

Tim

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