From jspickes@etrademail.com Thu Nov 15 10:00:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jspickes@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 15 Nov 2001 18:00:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 40719 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 18:00:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Nov 2001 18:00:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com) (24.23.49.116) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 18:00:16 -0000 Received: from jspickes by cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 164Qnd-0001uO-00 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:59:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:59:41 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Introduction, and zutse/se sutse Message-ID: <20011115125941.B21465@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com> Reply-To: jspickes@etrademail.com References: <9spmm1+t7a9@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-eGroups-From: jspickes@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com From: jspickes@etrademail.com On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:14:30PM -0500, Craig wrote: > And, as a newbie and thus lacking the prior context, does my sig make any > sense to you at all? > > '.i do cu vanci le ba panje xusra > .i denci gunma le se gidva' Grammatically, sure. Content-wise, not a bit. With the help of jbofi'e (to make up for my poor vocabulary) I translate this as: You are the evening of those who were spongey asserters, the toothy group of guided ones. I can only assume that you're using some very unfamiliar metaphors.. {do cu vanci} might mean that you are the last of, or near the end of a sequence of, or signalling the end of something. {le ba panje xusra} might be an individual or group who were particularly wishy-washy in their assertions. Perhaps a politician or fence-sitter. I assume that the elided x1 sumti of the second bridi is {le ba panje xusra}, because I don't see {do} as making much sense in the x1 of gunma. How the group might be toothy or somehow related to teeth is unclear. Maybe they're dentists. --John