From jjllambias@hotmail.com Mon Aug 07 15:00:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9521 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2000 22:00:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Aug 2000 22:00:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.43) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Aug 2000 22:00:08 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:00:07 -0700 Received: from 200.49.74.2 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 07 Aug 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.49.74.2] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Questions Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:00:07 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Aug 2000 22:00:07.0799 (UTC) FILETIME=[D96B7870:01C000BA] From: "Jorge Llambias" > > > Question 1: How does one translate "how old are you?" into lojban? >There > > > is no pure age relation in the gismu. > > > > Probably several ways. One is: > > > > le do nunjmive cu nanca xo > > or more colloquially > > xo selna'a do That should be {ma} or {li xo} instead of {xo}. I use {do ma nanca} or {do nanca ma}, but I don't think this is really less precise than {le nunjmive}. In both cases you have to understand that the measurement goes from the time of birth to the present, but there is hardly any other year measurement of a living person that would be more likely than that. > > Also > > xo ni do tolcitno I don't think an amount of oldness is a number of years, but I'm not very confident about the use of {ni} anyway. > > > Question 2: How does one express "here" (as in the current location) >as a > > > sumti? > > > > ti (without actually pointing at anything, or pointing at the ground) > >But is that a sumti? Yes, ti, ta, tu are sumti, like mi, do. Other possibilities are bu'uku, viku. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com