From ragnarok@pobox.com Sun Jun 10 20:36:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 03:36:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 18871 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 03:36:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 03:36:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 03:36:04 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id ACA62AD8009C; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:36:06 -0400 Reply-To: To: "Jorge Llambias" , Subject: salesman thinking we're pretty (was RE: [lojban] selma'o but I'm going off on a tangent) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:36:00 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Here's what I was thinking: mi vecnu cu melbi I, by the seller, am judged to be beautiful the salesman think's I'm pretty But now that I look at it, you're right. It would need to be mi le vecnu cu melbi to express that sentiment. No, I don't like articles in English anymore than I like them in lojban. but at least I've had all my life to master them. --la kreig.daniyl 'segu temci fa le bavli gi mi'o ba renvi lo purci .i ga la fonxa cu janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet xy.sy. gubmau ckiku cmesanji: 0x5C3A1E74