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cipra .u'u
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 06:45:29AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> pc:
> > I suggest the same might be said for goo, which can, in Lojban, be
> > viewed as a kind of collective, and one that can take numeration:
> > "three teaspoons of salt" or, more clearly, "two cups of water." Of
> > course it is not clear where these numerations go, but the "this is
> > in cups number two of water" does not seem the best solution.
>
> It's not even clear how to say that. Probably something like:
>
> ti noi djacu cu klani li re lo kabri
> This, which is water, amounts to 2 measured in cups.
>
> But {lo djacu} is not a sumti there. As a sumti:
>
> lo djacu je klani be li re bei lo kabri
> Water and amount 2 in cups.

Err, what?

lo djacu cu klani li re lo kabri

Read klani a bit more carefully.

> Another possibility is to use the number "2 cups" as a quantifier
> of {djacu}:
>
> vei mo'e re kabri ve'o djacu

That works too.

-Robin

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Of what? Our patience at decrypting nonsense. As far as I could make out {dracykei} is just {xe draci} and {sibvidru} is a terrible metaphor for "germ of an idea"

wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:Re: le dracykei javni be fi la sibvidru dracyselkei
cipra .u'u





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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:18:35PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> Of what? Our patience at decrypting nonsense.

For sending a test message.

> As far as I could make out {dracykei} is just {xe draci} and
> {sibvidru} is a terrible metaphor for "germ of an idea"

jbovlaste is out there for a reason, you know.

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/Role%20Playing%20Terms

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/Orion's%20Arm%20Story%20Terms

-Robin


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What ought to be happening that isn't — or conversely?

Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:24:00PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:55:36PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:41:38PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:41:04PM -0700, wikidiscuss@lojban.org
> > > wrote:
> > > > Dammit, something's wrong.
> > >
> > > But I don't know what.
> >
> > Testing more.
>
> Foo.

Further. Sorry.

-Robin




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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:41:55AM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> What ought to be happening that isn't — or conversely?

Posts were not getting from the mailing list to the forums. It's fixed
now. Sorry for all the crap.

-Robin


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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:18:35PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> Of what? Our patience at decrypting nonsense.

For sending a test message.

> As far as I could make out {dracykei} is just {xe draci} and
> {sibvidru} is a terrible metaphor for "germ of an idea"

jbovlaste is out there for a reason, you know.

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/Role%20Playing%20Terms

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/Orion's%20Arm%20Story%20Terms

-Robin


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Sure, but you have yto know where to look; neither {drayckei} nor {sibvidru} are on the generial lists and role-playing games are so remote from my life (since I played chaturanga and some derivatives in college) that they would not occur to me — until I went to the original site and then looked up {xarpre}. u'u though

Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:18:35PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> Of what? Our patience at decrypting nonsense.

For sending a test message.

> As far as I could make out {dracykei} is just {xe draci} and
> {sibvidru} is a terrible metaphor for "germ of an idea"

jbovlaste is out there for a reason, you know.

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/Role%20Playing%20Terms

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/Orion's%20Arm%20Story%20Terms

-Robin





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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:45:58PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> Sure, but you have yto know where to look; neither {drayckei} nor
> {sibvidru} are on the generial lists

I have no idea what a "general list" is in this context, but:

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/sibvidru

dracykei is my bad; I'll fix it momentarily.

-Robin