From phma@oltronics.net Sat Jun 02 15:55:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 2 Jun 2001 22:55:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 85462 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2001 22:55:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Jun 2001 22:55:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.52) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Jun 2001 22:55:55 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 504203C635; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:40:52 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Material for phrasebook Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:37:26 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20010602232736.A436@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> In-Reply-To: <20010602232736.A436@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060218405203.22635@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Richard Curnow wrote: >I could not resist the opportunity... :-) > > I would like some cigarettes > au mi na terve'u levi snaku'ocukla iri'abo ri se sraku > > I would like some matches > le mi varkiclaflo'i cu culno lo sincykaifi'e > > Could you direct me to the station? > pe'u ko pencu lemi zargu The second one I recognize as "Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug is voller Aale", but what are the others in the original? Where are they from? What is a sincyfi'e, as distinguished from sincykaifi'e? Speaking of Monty, there's a web browser called Grail, written in Python, hosted on a machine called Monty, and one of the Python modules is called ni, which has been superseded by nii. phma