From phma@oltronics.net Fri Jun 16 07:59:23 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12964 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2000 14:59:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Jun 2000 14:59:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 16 Jun 2000 14:59:21 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA06273 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:59:18 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.11, neofelis, , 207.15.133.11 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 10:59:19(EDT) on June 16, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:43:29 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <8icv7g+jfc8@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <8icv7g+jfc8@eGroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00061609483105.00980@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting) wrote: >--- In lojban@egroups.com, rob@t... wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:44:20PM -0700, Jorge Llambias wrote: >> > i ie i mi za'o darxi lo morsi xirma >> >> .u'i di'u pa xamgu se fanva fi le lojbo >> .i mi ca seltirna cmila >> -- >> la rabspir. > >Interesting! Since I do not know a saying like that (English or >Spanish?) I had to take its meaning from the Lojban phrase: > >I go on hitting a dead horse (?) This is an idiom in English. Since what we are beating here is not a literal horse, it should be marked with "pe'a". phma