From lojbab@lojban.org Tue Jul 10 22:59:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 11 Jul 2001 05:59:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 64489 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2001 05:59:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jul 2001 05:59:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Jul 2001 05:59:41 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic79.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.79]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6B5xeq10322 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:59:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010711015934.00d989e0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:03:56 -0400 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Changing money In-Reply-To: <0107110025510E.26179@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 12:24 AM 07/11/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >I'm going to add a page about money and banks to the phrasebook. Which is the >better word for changing money, basygau or galfi? Huh? Assuming that I know what you mean by the phrase, it is neither. galfi lo jdini would be more like debasing currency by adding cheap metals to the coinage. canja is the correct root, and changing money is something like seldi'i canja. 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