From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Sun Mar 7 22:39:50 1999
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 08:39:50 +0200
From: Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Jorge's poem

la xorxes cusku di'e

>
> la robin presku di'e
>
> >{xukydei} - should this be {xrukydei}?
>
> i mintu i zo xuk cu rafsi zo xruki
>

Ah, the web-glosser read it as {xu ky dei} - "is this the K-day?"!

>
> >{le ciromoi masti pe le critu} - "every third month of Autumn"??
>
> This I admit is not very conventional. {cimoi} means "third" and
> {romoi} means "last", so I meant it to be "third and last".
>

Didn't know this. {romoi} for "last" strikes me as a bit odd - I would have
read it as "every one in turn". Must admit I didn't read the chapter on
numbers very carefully.

>
> >{ro lanzu lo ri xruki cu jmaji} - "all familial turkeys gather"??
>
> {ro lanzu} is the first sumti, {lo ri xruki} is the second. It's the
> same as {ro lanzu cu jmaji lo ri xruki}, "all families gather
> around their turkey".
>

The absence of an article in the first sumti threw me, though I assumend
this was the intended meaning.

co'o mi'e robin.