From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Jun 17 13:28:38 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6344 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2000 20:28:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Jun 2000 20:28:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-5.cais.net) (205.252.14.75) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Jun 2000 20:28:36 -0000 Received: from bob (209-8-89-116.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.116]) by stmpy-5.cais.net (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e5HKSXL62548; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:28:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lojbab@lojban.org) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000617162219.00ba12a0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:29:18 -0400 To: "Jorge Llambias" , lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: darxi le morsi xirma [was Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo In-Reply-To: <20000617193757.11000.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 12:37 PM 06/17/2000 -0700, Jorge Llambias wrote: >la lojbab cusku di'e > > > >.i mi stidi lu > > > >le'i ni le ci gerku cu jai sisku lo re ka ce'u pavyseljirna tanxe > > > >li'u > > > > > >ku'i .iaje'unai lo pavyseljirna tanxe cu se pilno fida da'i (But > > >a 'unicorn box' could be good for something...) > > > >Perhaps. But 2 of them, being useful to 3 dogs seems a bit unlikely. > >It is not the three dogs that are looking for something, >the three dogs are somehow related to the seeking, but >we can't tell how, they are in the {jai} place. Maybe they >are hounds used by someone as instruments of their seeking? > >More complicated is what is being sought: at least one of >the exactly two properties of being a unicorn box. I can't >really imagine why would there be exactly two such >properties. That is strange in itself. And why would >anyone seek them with hounds is even more baffling. >Do properties have a characteristic smell? They do after we have been discussing them on Lojban List for a few weeks. A veritable stench. Or is that a veridical stench? > >And > >if you can figure out what "le'i ni broda" is for any broda, you are a > >better (or stranger) Lojbanist than I. > >Well, if you know what an amount is, a set of them should >be straightforward. I don't really understand {ni}, so I can't >say what an amount of seeking is, but if you do it should be >easy to figure a set of those. I think you have exactly figured out why I suggested that understanding this sentence could be the Lojbanic equivalent to beating a dead horse. I think it encompasses up every major confusion that we've reiterated in the last couple of years (Nora thinks I should have thrown za'o in there too though). lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org