From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Jul 31 20:39:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 1 Aug 2001 03:39:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 66057 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2001 03:39:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Aug 2001 03:39:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Aug 2001 03:39:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f713dIK01512 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:39:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:39:17 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Speaking Lojban In-Reply-To: <20010731151749.22612.qmail@pi.meson.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On 31 Jul 2001, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > I had been practicing mostly the attitudinals, so if you recall I had more > trouble with gismu than you, but I think I did a lot of compressing bridi > (and whole jufra) down to attitudinals. And we managed to have a decent > discussion in Lojban with whole jufra as well. Still, you're right. We > were making extremely deeply-nested sentences about {mi jinvi le nu do > xusra le nu...} where a few well-placed attitudinals would have done the > trick (pe'i, etc). Thank you for speaking up! I had written that summary without the benefit of proper sleep so I forgot to mention the good discussion you, Nora, and I had, all in Lojban, concerning "va'o" vs. "ganai gi" as a translation for "if, then". It ended in agreement, too! .i'i .e'o ko ca'o casnu vecu'u dei ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!