[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting stories

2010-02-10 Thread tijlan
On 11 February 2010 00:59, Ian Johnson wrote: > I'm not quite sure how {ni'o ni'o ni'o} works here; I checked the CLL and it > seems to more or less indicate "going off on a completely different topic > altogether"...the mechanisms are actually pretty specific, but the core > "meaning" seems somew

[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting stories

2010-02-10 Thread Ian Johnson
I'm not quite sure how {ni'o ni'o ni'o} works here; I checked the CLL and it seems to more or less indicate "going off on a completely different topic altogether"...the mechanisms are actually pretty specific, but the core "meaning" seems somewhat vague. I can see how it might, but I'm not quite cl

[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting stories

2010-02-10 Thread tijlan
On 10 February 2010 23:27, Ian Johnson wrote: > In English we have things like "once upon a time" or "one day" that we use > conventionally to start stories, especially in fiction. Latin takes this one > step further and uses just one word, "olim", which unlike the English > version has no tense d

[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting stories

2010-02-10 Thread Alan Post
mi stidi lu ni'o ni'o ni'o li'u [I suggest "ni'o ni'o ni'o"] xu do jinvi [What do you think?] -Alan On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:27:55PM -0500, Ian Johnson wrote: >In English we have things like "once upon a time" or "one day" that we use >conventionally to start stories, especially in fic

[lojban-beginners] Starting stories

2010-02-10 Thread Ian Johnson
In English we have things like "once upon a time" or "one day" that we use conventionally to start stories, especially in fiction. Latin takes this one step further and uses just one word, "olim", which unlike the English version has no tense dependence; it makes sense to use olim in a story about

[lojban-beginners] Re: smart.fm

2010-02-10 Thread Jon "Top Hat" Jones
I added a column on the Gdoc to put the mp3 file locations in. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Jon "Top Hat" Jones wrote: > Worst come to worst, we can use Google Docs as a repository- it will "soon > be possible" to upload any kind of file, which I would assume includes .mp3 > files. However we

[lojban-beginners] Re: smart.fm

2010-02-10 Thread Jon "Top Hat" Jones
Worst come to worst, we can use Google Docs as a repository- it will "soon be possible" to upload any kind of file, which I would assume includes .mp3 files. However we decide to do it, though, we'll need to put it's web link into the Gdoc list. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Sara Brand wrote:

[lojban-beginners] Re: se du'u?

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Turniansky
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Ian Johnson wrote: > In Luke's last sentence he says "...se cu klama mi". Can you do that? I > thought it would need to be "cu se klama mi" > Luke was incorrect. Yours is right.

[lojban-beginners] Re: se du'u?

2010-02-10 Thread Ian Johnson
In Luke's last sentence he says "...se cu klama mi". Can you do that? I thought it would need to be "cu se klama mi" mu'omi'e latros. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 15:26:37 Luke Bergen wrote: > > Interesting. du'u vs se du'u always kind of

[lojban-beginners] Re: se du'u?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 15:26:37 Luke Bergen wrote: > Interesting. du'u vs se du'u always kind of confused me. > > So, would {mi cusku lo se du'u mi klama lo zarci} be equal to both {mi > cusku lu mi klama lo zarci} and {mi cusku lu lo zarci se cu klama mi} since > they both represent the sa

[lojban-beginners] Re: se du'u?

2010-02-10 Thread Luke Bergen
Interesting. du'u vs se du'u always kind of confused me. So, would {mi cusku lo se du'u mi klama lo zarci} be equal to both {mi cusku lu mi klama lo zarci} and {mi cusku lu lo zarci se cu klama mi} since they both represent the same bridi but in different ways? On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM, M

[lojban-beginners] Re: se du'u?

2010-02-10 Thread Ian Johnson
That was what I thought; when I saw that du'u referred to what is logically a proposition, and saw that a greeting is most definitely not a proposition, I thought it was a problem, but wasn't sure. Thank you; that makes sense. mu'omi'e latros. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Minimiscience wrote:

[lojban-beginners] Re: se du'u?

2010-02-10 Thread Minimiscience
de'i li 10 pi'e 02 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Ian Johnson .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > I'm wondering about what you can use se du'u with. Here's a simple example: > do cusku le se du'u coi latros. .ui > Can I do that? Or do I need something else, like quote tags? .skamyxatra That needs to be "{do cusku lu

[lojban-beginners] se du'u?

2010-02-10 Thread Ian Johnson
I'm wondering about what you can use se du'u with. Here's a simple example: do cusku le se du'u coi latros. .ui Can I do that? Or do I need something else, like quote tags?