From sabren@manifestation.com Tue Jul 03 20:40:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: sabren@manifestation.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 4 Jul 2001 03:40:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 70587 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 03:40:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Jul 2001 03:40:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.sabren.com) (209.61.186.253) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 03:40:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (sabren@localhost) by mercury.sabren.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05026 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:48:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:48:04 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: sabren@mercury.sabren.com To: lojban list Subject: Re: [lojban] la lisre re lo kumte In-Reply-To: <01070323111105.23937@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Michal Wallace On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >.i la lisri re lo kumte > lisri be re kumte > >.i puzuvu la raca.bin.salim. te vecnu re lo kumte > "raca" needs to end in a consonant, otherwise it means roughly "it now" > >.i li pa banli > That means "the number 1 is great". You want "pa ky barda", I think. > >.i li pa nalbanli > >.i le banli sputu fo la raca. > cu sputu > >.i le nalbanli tikpa la raca. stedu > le la racas. stedu > >.i la raca. vecnu re lo kumte ki'e pier. ni'o lisri be re kumte .i puzuvu la raca.bin.salim. te vecnu re lo kumte .i pa ky barda .i pa ky nalbarda .i le barda cu sputu fo la racas. .i le nalbarda tikpa le la racas. stedu .i la racas. vecnu re lo kumte fa'o Better? Was the original title actually wrong, or is the shorter version just cleaner? Cheers, - Michal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.manifestation.com www.sabren.net www.linkwatcher.com www.zike.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------