From xod@thestonecutters.net Thu Feb 20 08:29:46 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 20 Feb 2003 16:29:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 14524 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2003 16:29:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 20 Feb 2003 16:29:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2003 16:29:37 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18ltZo-00082a-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:29:36 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18ltZa-00082C-00; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:29:23 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [66.111.194.10] (helo=granite.thestonecutters.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18ltZT-00081v-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:29:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1KGT8b51418 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:29:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:29:08 -0500 (EST) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: another tag In-Reply-To: <20030220001128.GA30112@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: <20030220112305.M50679-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 4112 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Invent Yourself Reply-To: xod@thestonecutters.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=110189215 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:02:42AM +0100, jexOm. wrote: > > > > Le mercredi, 19 f?v 2003, ? 20:29 Europe/Paris, Robin Lee Powell a > > ?crit : > > > > >On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:42:06PM +0100, jexOm. wrote: > > >>We know and use {.e'osai ko sarji la lojban.} > > >> > > >>I was thinking of other slogans. What do you think of {.i ko tadni > > >>la lojban .i ju'o do ba nelci go'i}? > > > > > >Learn lojban! You will liking-type-of-learn lojban. > > > > > >(Try "ri" instead of "go'i"). > > > > Thank you for your answer, Robin. > > Are you sure for {ri}? > > Well, it's what I'd use. > > > If I want to say something like: "Learn Lojban! You'll like it, for > > sure.", I really want to repeat the previous bridi. > > In fact I started from the example page 97 in the CLL. The example is > > {la djan. klama le zarci .i la djan. go'i troci}. > > And I realize now that {.i ko tadni la lojban .i ju'o do ba go'i nelci} > > may be better, because if I use this example, it goes like: > > {do tadni la lojban.} > > {do go'i nelci} for {do tadni be la lojban. be'o nelci} > > You are a learner (learning lojban) type of one-who-likes. > > No; you are a learner-of-lojban type-of liker. What you like is not > actually specified. > > > What do you think? > > I think that you want "nelci le nu go'i" A slob like me would find ".i ko tadni la lojban .i ju'o do ba nelci" quite sufficient. Coming from English, we have the tendency to overspecify when context really makes it perfectly clear what we mean. .i ko tadni la lojban. noi do pu'o nelci ju'o ke'a .i ko nelci cilre la lojban. -- Seventy-two city councils, including Philadelphia, Austin, Chicago, Baltimore and Cleveland have passed anti-war resolutions.