[lojban-beginners] Re: as though

2009-08-31 Thread Judson Lester
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Stela Selckiku wrote: > lo nu ko bajra cu simsa lo nu da'i do tirxu se jersi > Make an event of you running be similar to a hypothetical event of you > being tiger chased. Would it be grammatical (or appropriate) to say {lo nu ko bajra cu simsa le nu da'i do tir

[lojban-beginners] Re: jai

2009-08-26 Thread Judson Lester
Just reviewing the CLL with your question in mind, I (at least) hit on some understanding. The example in the CLL is: {mi jai rinka le nu do morsi} I cause your death This example is presented in contrast to: {tu'a mi rinka le nu do morsi} I cause your death {le nu do morsi} is simple enough: the

[lojban-beginners] Re: lo mlatu lo gerku ma kau frica

2007-10-25 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/25/07, komfo,amonan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/25/07, Judson Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > .ie ki'e do drani tu'a mi skudji .a'onairu'e > > > > mi stidi lu .ie ki'e do'u do drani tu'a lo se s

[lojban-beginners] Re: please use jbobac

2007-10-25 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/25/07, Timo Paulssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oh, don't be fooled by that. jbobac is not about the teamspeak server, > it is completely independant of it! > you can post your stuff anyway, even though the teamspeak server has > been offline for a long time (noone used it and another tea

[lojban-beginners] Re: lo mlatu lo gerku ma kau frica

2007-10-25 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/25/07, Judson Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > .ie ki'e do danri lo mi skudji .a'onairu'e > > I understand now why di'u is better than go'i (or rather: why one is right > and the other wrong) - why isn't la'edi'u better t

[lojban-beginners] Re: lo mlatu lo gerku ma kau frica

2007-10-25 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/25/07, Jorge LlambĂ­as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/24/07, Penguino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .ienai lo jetnu zmadu go'i le ka palci ? I don't quite understand this. > > pe'i skudji lu ienai lo jetnu cu zmadu di'u lo ka palci li'u .ie ki'e do danri lo mi skudji .a'onairu'e I un

[lojban-beginners] Re: common interests

2007-10-25 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/25/07, james riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please people, use jbobac! ( jbobac.lojban.org)). > I'd love to. Every time I check it out "Teamspeak server is offline." I'd assumed it was one of the many lojban web-services that was languishing.

[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

2007-10-24 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/24/07, Jared Angell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Geodesic domes are half-spheres composed out of triangles, does that > help??? Except that they're not. Specifically, not just any arrangement of triangles would not necessarily be geodesic. The important thing about the design is that th

[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

2007-10-24 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/24/07, Penguino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wouldn't {ruvsirselgunma} be acceptable as well, though? > > > Not really. The v and s aren't allowed together; they're a voiced-unvoiced > consonant pair. They must either be separated with a y, or a different > rafsi be selected. > Of course.

[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

2007-10-24 Thread Judson Lester
On 10/24/07, Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 October 2007 19:46, Judson Lester wrote: > > So, {xabybolci ruvsirsergum} ? > > {ruvsirsergum} is not well-formed. The lujvo for that tanru is > {krusirselgunma}. You're right - I tend

[lojban-beginners] Re: lo mlatu lo gerku ma kau frica

2007-10-24 Thread Judson Lester
.ienai lo jetnu zmadu go'i le ka palci .i lo mlatu ga'idai cu krici ledu'u do mlatu On 10/24/07, Penguino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .i lo gerku cu jinvi ledu'u ri remna .iku'i lo mlatu cu jinvi ledu'u ri > cevni > > On 10/25/07, Timo Paulssen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > lo gerku cu pi

[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

2007-10-24 Thread Judson Lester
As to geodesic dome: {ta cu xabybolci je gunma be lo so'i sirji be ma'i lo kruvi sefta ku} By which I intend: that is a half-sphere and composed of many line segments, which are straight with respect to a curved surface. It might be better to relax the precision a bit and go with something more l