From phma@oltronics.net Thu Nov 30 15:42:10 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 30 Nov 2000 23:42:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 51425 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2000 23:41:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Nov 2000 23:41:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Nov 2000 23:41:52 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA19889 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:41:49 -0500 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.24, neofelis, , 207.15.133.24 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 18:41:50(EST) on November 30, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: zoi gy. Good Morning! .gy. Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:33:56 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <906fkk+mdub@eGroups.com> <20001130173654.B49957@threads.polyesthetic.msg> In-Reply-To: <20001130173654.B49957@threads.polyesthetic.msg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00113018414807.20668@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Thimble Smith wrote: >I know a culture where the standard greeting is "I de no?", >["Are you?"]. The response is, "Mi de, o" ["I am, uh-huh"]. >Then the first person says, "I ko aki no?" ["You came here?"], >and the response is, "Mi ko aki". These phrases obviously aren't >literal questions and answers. bau ma? .i mi sisku zoi xy. mi de ko aki .xy la gugl. i mi fakci fi lo ponjo .e lo lojbo .e lo me madjar. co'omi'e pier.