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Re: [lojban] crossword puzzle



On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:12:12AM -0400, MorphemeAddict wrote:
>    2011/3/20 Remo Dentato [1]rdentato@gmail.com
> 
>      ...
>      > mu'o mi'e xorxes
>      While I'm at that. I never understood why you don't say {mi'e xorxes
>      mu'o} since, in my mind, nothing should follow {mu'o}.
> 
>    I used to think the same thing, but somebody (perhaps xorxes) convinced me
>    otherwise, and now I sign off (when I use Lojban) with "mu'o mi'e stevon".
>    stevo
> 

The story I told myself about {mu'o mi'e ...} was that the mu'o is
indeed saying "over" but not until the statement it was contained in
is uttered.  If you want to be over right away there is {fa'o}.

.i mu'o mi'e .alyn.
-- 
.i ma'a lo bradi ku penmi gi'e du

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