From pycyn@aol.com Sat Dec 02 15:57:13 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 2 Dec 2000 23:57:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 10864 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2000 23:56:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Dec 2000 23:56:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d05.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.37) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Dec 2000 23:56:22 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.34.) id a.a9.e5b555a (3314) for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:56:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:56:19 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: zoi gy. Good Morning! .gy. To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_a9.e5b555a.275ae623_boundary" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: Unknown sub 171 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_a9.e5b555a.275ae623_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/2/2000 1:41:14 PM Central Standard Time, topaz@linkline.com writes: > Would {ceryrinsa - vacrinsa - cterinsa}, etc. be > acceptable/understandable, at least as translation devices to > represent conventional time-conditioned greetings from other > languages? > Sure, except that they none of them are greetings. That is, they describe such greetings (with, e.g., {zoi gy Good Morning gy} in third place) but they don't work to perform them; you wouldn't say {ceryrinsa} to someone on first meeting them in the morning (well, maikl might). --part1_a9.e5b555a.275ae623_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/2/2000 1:41:14 PM Central Standard Time,
topaz@linkline.com writes:


Would {ceryrinsa - vacrinsa - cterinsa}, etc. be
acceptable/understandable, at least as translation devices to
represent conventional time-conditioned greetings from other
languages?


Sure, except that they none of them are greetings. That is, they describe
such greetings (with, e.g., {zoi gy Good Morning gy} in third place) but they
don't work to perform them; you wouldn't say {ceryrinsa} to someone on first
meeting them in the morning (well, maikl might).   --part1_a9.e5b555a.275ae623_boundary--