From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 28 09:03:59 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 28 May 2002 16:03:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 56401 invoked from network); 28 May 2002 16:03:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 May 2002 16:03:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (66.92.190.121) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 May 2002 16:03:58 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17CjSa-0001uo-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 09:04:32 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 09:04:32 -0700 To: Ulrich Faber Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: "No smoking" in Lojban Message-ID: <20020528160432.GT5201@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ulrich Faber , lojban@onelist.com References: <000201c202c8$92a61d70$7f3a340a@mwd.mwu.nec.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000201c202c8$92a61d70$7f3a340a@mwd.mwu.nec.co.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:13:17AM +0900, Ulrich Faber wrote: > Hello, > > May I ask you for a little favour ? > > I wonder if you could tell me how to say > "No smoking" or "Smoking prohibited" in Lojban ... > (I'm currently listing up that phrase in natural and artificial > languages) Heh. What an interesting choice. ko na pilno lo sigja is probably the most obvious way to say it. Literally, "You!, don't use cigarrettes/cigars/etc". I'm cc'ing this to the main list in case someone else has comments. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/