On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Lindar
<lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi there! I'm excited to see a new face on the mailing list! We have plenty of questions, we've got a beginners
1. Please read and reread and re-reread these lessons on Lojban.
2. The denpabu (full-stop) goes -before- a vowel, not after; please make sure you do this for every vowel-starting word. 3. Names are not capitalised; if you want to spell your name the way you do in whatever your native language is, you must use la'o or la'oi.
4. Names in Lojban are surrounded by dots (a rule we call 'dotside'); my name is {la .lindar.} in Lojban.
5. {le} is no longer the default gadri, so your use of {le} seems very peculiar, especially at "le nu".
Based on his writing he learned from the CLL and/or the LFB.
6. What is a {cnino kucli}? "Unfamiliar thing-being-curious." ?
I'm guessing, based on context, "new curiosities"
7. What is a "cunso notci"? "Unpredictable note." ?
Guessing on context, "random letter" (through Twitter)
8. {la .tuitr.} is the best approximation. {.ter.} is pronounced like English "tear" (verb sense, as in 'tearing paper'), so {.tuiter.} sounds very strange. R can be syllabic in Lojban.
Names can be whatever the namer wants them to be, unless the named has a preference.
9. *{i mi ca'a cnino je'u le nu lojbo} translates to something like "I'm actually unfamiliar to being Lojbanic.", which sounds okay in English, but means more like, "Being Lojbanic is not familiar with me.". The unfamiliar thing is the x1 of {cnino} and the unfamiliar thing is the x2.
X. Your past use of {cfari} is incorrect. The definition is "x1 starts/begins.". There is no place for an agent. A more correct way to express this is like {mi co'a broda} "I'm starting to broda.".
E. What is {dai ui} meant to indicate?