From phma@webjockey.net Wed Jul 03 10:23:00 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 3 Jul 2002 17:23:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 82227 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 17:22:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jul 2002 17:22:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 17:22:59 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17PnqH-0002Cv-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:23:01 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17PnqB-0002Ce-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:22:55 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:22:53 z (PDT) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=neofelis.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Pnq7-0002CQ-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:22:51 -0700 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id C9E6C3C4C8; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:22:09 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] pro-sumti question Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:22:06 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20020702202324.A65525@allusion.net> In-Reply-To: <20020702202324.A65525@allusion.net> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0207031322060D.02128@neofelis> X-archive-position: 95 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 21:23, Jordan DeLong wrote: > If I say > > le gerku cu jersi le mlatu > cu tatpi binxo > > What can I use for ? I don't think "rera" or "reri" is quite > right... "ri .e ra" is a little bit lame, but the only thing I can > think of. Are there cmavo for this that I dunno about? I recently thought of using "ru", which is quite rarely used (8 vs. 99 for "ra" and 132 for "ri"), for this. By the time one has to refer to something unrecently enough mentioned to be called "ru", one either repeats it or uses a letter or something from the ko'a series. phma