From phma@oltronics.net Wed Jul 04 04:03:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 4 Jul 2001 11:03:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 64041 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 11:03:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Jul 2001 11:03:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.66) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 11:03:40 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 091763C567; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:42:05 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Question of meaning Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:37:05 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <9hu55t+7pq3@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <9hu55t+7pq3@eGroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01070400420509.23937@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, vyxle wrote: >Erm, yes, in that I'm new on this list (and rather new to lojban as >well) I'm not 100% certain of how it would be correct to go about >asking this...but here goes. A friend and I were discussing >vocatives. co'o, ki'e, etc. He then mentioned that nai could be >tacked on to negate something. The question then came up as to what >it would mean when someone said "coinai". Would it be negative in >emotion? Would it be a vocalized avoidance of greeting? Does anyone >have any thoughts on this? I would much appreciate hearing what other >people think. coinai I'm not greeting you co'onai I'm not ready to say bye yet mi'enai I'm not... ta'anai Keep talking phma