From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sat Aug 17 11:59:28 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 17 Aug 2002 18:59:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 12659 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2002 18:59:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Aug 2002 18:59:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2002 18:59:27 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA27952; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200208171910.PAA27952@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:56:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Favourite questions To: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de (Newton, Philip) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:56:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com ('lojban@yahoogroups.com') In-Reply-To: from "Newton, Philip" at Aug 17, 2002 06:51:02 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Newton, Philip scripsit: > What? {ma} -- obviously no difference from "Who?". Usually in a journalistic context like this, "What?" actually means "About what?" or "On what topic?". > What would CowboyNeal Do? -- No idea. Something with {la kauboinil. mo}, I > suppose? I don't know how to express "what would he do [if here were in this > situation]" at all. la kauboinil. mo da'i fau le nu co'e CowboyNeal does-what? [hypothetically] with-event the-event-of doing-the-default -- There is / One art John Cowan No more / No less http://www.reutershealth.com To do / All things http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With art- / Lessness -- Piet Hein