From rob@twcny.rr.com Fri Oct 19 17:12:32 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 20 Oct 2001 00:12:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 29711 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 00:12:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 20 Oct 2001 00:12:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.125) by mta3 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 00:12:32 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f9K0BUF27972 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:11:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:11:16 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15ujjd-0000Kj-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:11:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:11:29 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Broken Phone, round 2 Message-ID: <20011019201129.A1200@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer X-Yahoo-Profile: squeekybobo On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:00:04PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la and cusku di'e: > > >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", > > "elija" is the third person singular present subjunctive > > "Cuando" + subjunctive is indeed "whenever". > > >but at any rate, Rob takes > >it as "when" and renders it as "calenu", which Greg renders well as > >"while". How should the "whenever" have been rendered in Lojban? Incidentally, you seem to have noticed that the subjunctive is my weak spot in Spanish. And quite possibly, switching places around is my weak spot in Lojban (I've managed to do that on two Broken Phones now). -- la rab.spir noi zo gumri cu sarji