From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Jul 07 08:30:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 7 Jul 2001 15:30:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 15530 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2001 15:30:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2001 15:30:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2001 15:30:19 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (99.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.99]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f67FUHq80272; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 11:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010707112515.05006190@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 11:34:37 -0400 To: phma@oltronics.net, lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] so that In-Reply-To: <0107061956090A.01737@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:54 PM 07/06/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >How do you say "so that"? I thought this was "mu'i", but apparently it's not. > >e.g. >Why did you put the bread in the fridge? >So that it wouldn't go bad. tezu'e would perhaps be better. The difference between mu'i and tezu'e is small but probably you use the latter when the motive is identical with achieving the goal. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org