[lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries

2008-01-07 Thread Nathaniel Krause
"A. PIEKARSKI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message > From: der Mouse > To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org > Sent: Monday, January 7, 2008 1:06:49 PM > Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries > > [Would it be too much to ask that you not use paragraph-length lines?]

[lojban-beginners] Re: zo .e'e

2008-01-07 Thread Penguino
How about "Have John go to the market"? On Jan 8, 2008 6:44 AM, Jorge Llambías <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I undestand "e'i", in the light of the e-series roughly corresponding > to the imperative mood, as imposing an obligation: > > e'i la djan klama le zarci > Let John go to the market. >

[lojban-beginners] Re: zo .e'e

2008-01-07 Thread Jorge Llambías
On Jan 7, 2008 7:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so ".e'e" isn't a feeling of being confident, it's a feeling that > someone is capable (possibly yourself). I would put it as "showing an attitude of encouragement or exhortation", rather than "feeling" anything, just as I wouldn't say {e

[lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries

2008-01-07 Thread A. PIEKARSKI
- Original Message > From: der Mouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org > Sent: Monday, January 7, 2008 1:06:49 PM > Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries > > [Would it be too much to ask that you not use paragraph-length lines?] I'm sorry, I will try to

[lojban-beginners] Re: zo .e'e

2008-01-07 Thread mungojelly
Quoting Jorge Llambías <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: leaving {e'e} outside of the imperative mood pattern is unfortunate. {e'e} can of course be used for self-exhortation too, like all the rest. OK, so ".e'e" isn't a feeling of being confident, it's a feeling that someone is capable (possibly yoursel

[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Turniansky
task. I'm a workshop editor for oedilf.com (the omnificient English dictionary in limerick form), and even with 1274 members, and 48,000 definitions covered, we haven't even completed to through the words starting with Co yet, in 3 years of existence. --gejyspa X-arc

[lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries

2008-01-07 Thread mungojelly
Quoting ? ? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: My name is Mari, I study lojban since December. But English is my third language after Russian and German, so I have a question: when I lojbanize a name of a country or a town, what pronounsation schould i use as base? For example, Moscow can