From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 29 21:08:00 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 04:08:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 45294 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 04:08:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 04:08:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 04:08:00 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 154xH5-0004aU-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 21:07:59 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:07:59 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Enemy [Was: [lojban] Request for grammar clarifications Message-ID: <20010529210759.I12764@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:34:06AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la rab spir di'e cusku > > >So {du} is only to be used for mekso now? > > Goodness no! Mekso should _never_ be used. > > According to my style-book, {du} is bad style and should be avoided > within reason, sets are very bad style and should be used only under > the most exacting of circumstances, and MEX are atrocious style and > should never be used. .u'i ga'i .a'ucu'i zo'o mi'a ckire do le nu do cusku di'u [ That's was my best attempt at the English "Thanks for sharing!" ] -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/