From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jul 03 10:29:47 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 17:29:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 92546 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 17:29:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jul 2002 17:29:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 17:29:47 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17Pnwq-0002E6-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:29:48 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Pnwn-0002Dp-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:29:46 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:29:43 z (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17Pnwk-0002Dg-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:29:42 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:29:42 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] pro-sumti question Message-ID: <20020703172941.GR2538@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20020702202324.A65525@allusion.net> <0207031322060D.02128@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0207031322060D.02128@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 96 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:22:06PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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. What's wrong with "la'e di'u"? -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/