From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sun Mar 18 15:36:11 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 18 Mar 2001 23:36:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 88981 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2001 23:36:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Mar 2001 23:36:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Mar 2001 23:36:10 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id SAA13092 for lojban@onelist.com; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:43:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:42:59 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Random lojban questions/annoyances. Message-ID: <20010318184259.J3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com References: <20010318153923.B3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20010318181242.E3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <0103181834050H.01270@neofelis> <20010318184220.I3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010318184220.I3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>; from on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:42:20PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:26:33PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, you wrote: > >.i ca'a go'i ti'e cu'u le pendo be fa le marji rinka saske > li'o > >zirpu ce'o zirpu bancu skari seri'a le du'u rodo viska le blanu be fa > >le > > What is "le brodo be fa" supposed to mean? It sounds like putting both > feet in > one shoe. Do you mean "le brodo poi/noi"? Yeah, you're probably right. I'm going to be re-reading the relative clause chapter shortly. > If that's what you mean, "le pendo be fa le marji rinka saske" means > "the > friend who is physics", where I suppose you meant "physicist" > (scientist is > skepre or skegu'a according to NORALUJV). Sorry, meant to write le marji rinka saske djuno; the friend who is a physics knower. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP