From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Aug 23 09:29:20 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 23 Aug 2002 16:29:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 8010 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2002 16:29:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Aug 2002 16:29:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Aug 2002 16:29:20 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17iHJI-0004by-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:29:20 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17iHIh-0004bc-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:28:43 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:28:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17iHIX-0004bT-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:28:33 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:28:33 -0700 To: "Newton, Philip" Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] fi'a Message-ID: <20020823162833.GM25193@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Newton, Philip" , lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 771 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 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:37:35AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > How is fi'a used? Is it something like this? > > Were you talking *to* him or *about* him? > --> do pu tavla fi'a ko'a > > i.e. inquiring what role {ko'a} played in relation to the selbri {tavla}? Pretty much, yeah. -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/