From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Oct 19 15:22:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 19 Oct 2001 22:22:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 52476 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 22:22:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Oct 2001 22:22:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 22:22:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9JMM3h12077 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:22:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:22:01 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Broken Phone, round 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, And Rosta wrote: > Pierre: > > Evgueni: fau le nu do cuxna kei ko ciska mrilu fi mi'a poi tavla > > Xod's version of Evgeny: > If you choose, send mail to we who speak. > > > And: ro ba'oi tu'odu'u do cuxna tu'odu'u se mrilu cei bu'a do ma'a poi > > tavla cu bu'a ko > > I'd have to see what Xod wrote to figure out where this verbosity > > came from. > > if ro ba'oi tu'odu'u > you do > choose cuxna > that tu'odu'u > mail se mrilu cei bu'a > you do > us ma'a > who poi > speak tavla > do so cu bu'a > IMPER ko > > -- There's no greater verbosity than in Xod's version, except what > verbosity Lojban makes mandatory. ganai do djica gi ko mrilu fi le mi'a tavla > > Jorge: Cuando usted elija enviar correspondencia a aquellos de nosotros > > que hablamos, h=E1galo. > > > > Rob: calenu do jdice ledu'u notci fi do tu po'u mi'a zi'epoi tavla > > keikei ko zukte ra > > > > Greg: While you decide to send a message to us, those who are talking > > to you, do it. > > I don't know Spanish, so I don't know whether "cuando" can mean "whenever= " > and I don't know the mood and tense of "elija", but at any rate, Rob take= s > it as "when" and renders it as "calenu", which Greg renders well as > "while". ca sounds more like a point in time ("when"), and ca'o sounds more like an interval("while"). --=20 It's said that Mullah Omar has met two non-Muslims in his life. Others say even that's not true. Sami ul-Haq, Osama bin Laden's closest friend in Pakistan, runs the "University for the Education of Truth," a fundamentalist institution that educated and trained nine out of the Taliban's top 10 leaders.