From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 07 11:07:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 7 May 2001 18:07:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 35036 invoked from network); 7 May 2001 18:07:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 May 2001 18:07:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 May 2001 18:07:49 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14wpQC-0008OW-00 for ; Mon, 07 May 2001 11:07:48 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 11:07:48 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Change Message-ID: <20010507110748.F21597@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com References: <01050218530506.01065@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <01050218530506.01065@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:47:49PM -0400 From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:47:49PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I'm looking at the passage in Alice where the gardeners were painting the > roses. The text currently reads: > > i ku'i ci purdykurji cu cintypunji ry ja'e le nu xunre > > I thought it should be: > > i ku'i ci purdykurji cu cintygalfi ry lo xunre > > but the problem is that "galfi" is missing a place. The concept I want a word > for is "x1 changes x2 from x3 to x4". How can that be said in Lojban? You don't want that at all, IMO. You want galfi, with poi. ku'i ci purdykurji cu cintygalfi ry poi ka blabi ku'o ry poi ka xunre -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/