From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Mon Mar 12 20:33:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 13 Mar 2001 04:33:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 4759 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2001 04:33:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2001 04:33:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Mar 2001 04:33:51 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id XAA09603 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:40:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:40:30 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] I almost caught the train Message-ID: <20010312234030.E29394@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jjllambias@hotmail.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:40:01AM +0000 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:40:01AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la xod cusku di'e > >It is before the time that Jesus Christ comes > >to my door in a Domino's uniform and delivers me a pizza.) > > Would you use {ba} or {pu'o} there? If {pu'o}, what is > your evidence to say that such an event is about to take > place? zo'o xu do kakne le nu do finti le nibli be le du'u la'e zoi gy. Domino's Pizza delivery person gy. drata la'o gy. Jesus Christ gy. co'o mi'e camgusmis PS: Couldn't think of a better way to do 'Can you prove that...' than that nasty 'le nu do finti le nibli be' construct. Suggestions?o PPS: I love this language. -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP