From graywyvern@hotmail.com Sat Apr 29 12:33:22 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24353 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2000 19:33:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Apr 2000 19:33:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO q8.egroups.com) (10.1.2.31) by mta3 with SMTP; 29 Apr 2000 19:33:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 14445 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2000 19:33:22 -0000 Received: from f80.law7.hotmail.com (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.80) by mx3.egroups.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2000 19:33:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 94810 invoked by uid 0); 29 Apr 2000 19:33:22 -0000 Message-ID: <20000429193322.94809.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.176.48.62 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 12:33:22 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.62] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] re: nazycau gerku Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 12:33:22 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "michael helsem" >From: "Jorge Llambias" li'o >la pycyn cusku di'e > > >How should I read the observatives (well, I don't suppose you can observe >a > >perfective)? > li'o >In this particular example I was not baffled by the >"observative" (the elision of x1) but by the meaning. >What does it mean for an idea to be over and done with? >Is it no longer an idea? Or no longer held by x3? >Or no longer being elaborated? What does {ba'o} really >mean there? > li'o je'e.a'a (Good point.) .i nu'o xagmau co skudji ledi'u sidbo sepi'o zo skudji (I should've preferred "intended to say".) .i .u'eru'ero'a na vlacafne (I'm still not used to that word.) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com