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nimi mute "e ala" jo e kalama tu wan anu tu?

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:22 PM, ricky.genova <ricky.genova@yahoo.it> wrote:> nimi mute "e ala" jo e kalama tu wan anu tu?mi pilin e ni: ni li jo e kalama tu wan./e.'a.la/(anu: /e.'?a.la/ )[I pronounce it as three syllables, sometimes but notconsistently with a glottal stop before the first /a/.]----Jim Henryhttp://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/

sina toki e ni: kalama "syllables" la o toki e ni: "eh-ah-la"o toki ala e ni: "yah-lah". ni li ike.--- On Sun, 7/12/08, ricky.genova <ricky.genova@yahoo.it> wrote:From: ricky.genova <ricky.genova@yahoo.it>Subject: [tokipona] kalama tu wan anu tuTo: tokipona@yahoogroups.comDate: Sunday, 7 December, 2008, 3:22 AMnimi mute "e ala" jo e kalama tu wan anu tu? New Email names for you!Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail.Hurry before someone else does!http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 13:22, ricky.genova <ricky.genova@yahoo.it> wrote:> nimi mute "e ala" jo e kalama tu wan anu tu?nimi mute "e ala" LI jo e kalama PI tu wan anu KALAMA PI tu?

2008/12/8 Rick Miller <rdmiller3@gmail.com>:> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 13:22, ricky.genova <ricky.genova@yahoo.it> wrote:>> nimi mute "e ala" jo e kalama tu wan anu tu?>> nimi mute "e ala" LI jo e kalama PI tu wan anu KALAMA PI tu?Ooops. :$nimi mute "e ala" LI jo e kalama PI tu wan anu KALAMA tu?

--- In tokipona@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Miller" <rdmiller3@...> wrote:>> 2008/12/8 Rick Miller <rdmiller3@...>:> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 13:22, ricky.genova <ricky.genova@...> wrote:> >> nimi mute "e ala" jo e kalama tu wan anu tu?> >> > nimi mute "e ala" LI jo e kalama PI tu wan anu KALAMA PI tu?>> Ooops. :$>> nimi mute "e ala" LI jo e kalama PI tu wan anu KALAMA tu?>This is a lot strange!So tu wan doesnt count as a single quantifier?

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 16:34, ricky.genova <ricky.genova@yahoo.it> wrote:> --- In tokipona@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Miller" <rdmiller3@...> wrote:>>>> nimi mute "e ala" LI jo e kalama PI tu wan anu KALAMA tu?>>>> This is a lot strange!>> So tu wan doesnt count as a single quantifier?"tu wan" is two words. Why would it count as one?"kalama tu wan" would mean something like "one of a pair of sounds".

in practical use the group of numbers is often not further split uplike you imply now... it would be greatly impractical with pi nanpa... anyway... So I'm afraid you're wrong... However, I willinvestigate this...jan Mimoku2008/12/8 Rick Miller <rdmiller3@gmail.com>:> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 16:34, ricky.genova <ricky.genova@yahoo.it> wrote:>> --- In tokipona@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Miller" <rdmiller3@...> wrote:>>>>>> nimi mute "e ala" LI jo e kalama PI tu wan anu KALAMA tu?>>>>>>> This is a lot strange!>>>> So tu wan doesnt count as a single quantifier?>> "tu wan" is two words. Why would it count as one?>> "kalama tu wan" would mean something like "one of a pair of sounds".>> ------------------------------------>> Yahoo! Groups Links>>>>--Communication is essential. So we need decent tools when communicationis lacking, when language capability is hard to acquire...http://esperanto.net

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 03:09, AJK <ikojba@gmail.com> wrote:> in practical use the group of numbers is often not further split up> like you imply now... it would be greatly impractical with pi nanpa> ... anyway... So I'm afraid you're wrong... However, I will> investigate this...Ah, yes... I forgot the word NANPA. Thanks.