On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at= 10:49 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

"We will add your biological and technological disti= nctiveness to our own."

It's fairly obvious that &quo= t;add" is the keyword here- the entire sentence is built from that rel= ationship. In Lojban, "add" is {jmina} "x1 combines x2 with = x3...". Similarly, the "will" is just {ba}. The hard part in= this is "biological and technological". We have {mivyske} "= x1 is biology based on methodology x2" and {zbaske} "x1 is the te= chnology of product x2...". The definition of both "biological&qu= ot; and "technological" is "pertaining to [biology/technolog= y]", so we want to add {srana} "x1 pertains to x2" to them t= o get our desired words, so we have {mivyskera'a} "x1 pertains to = biology" and {zbaskera'a} "x1 pertains to technology".
Next, we have to say "distinctiveness". After some thought, I= determined that the best way would be to use {po} "specific to".= This is mainly because it reduces the amount we have to say. We also proba= bly want to use {po'o] "...uniquely", which asserts that the = relationship is unique to the sumti it is attached to.=A0 So, now we just h= ave to put it all together:

=A0 "distinctiveness" is steci, = what it is that makes X special. And there is really no need for the -ra= 9;a endings. =A0That's the nice thing about selbri. =A0They function eq= ually well as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs simply by their use in t= he sentence. =A0

=A0 =A0 And given that I've already defined "m= i" to be an implicit plural with my foregoing "mi'e", we= can use mi rather than mi'a. so:

"mi ba jmina lo mivysk= e jo'u zbaske steci po do ri po mi"

=A0

=A0 =A0 =A0--gejyspa

{mi'a ba jmina lo mivyskera'a je zbaskera'a po = do po'o ri po mi'a}

Now we have the first three sentences:

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will= add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own."
{mi'a selcme zo.borg. .i ko sisti lonu nensabji lo nencalku kei = gi'e radydu'a lo do keslo'i .i mi'a ba jmina lo mivyskera&#= 39;a je zbaskera'a po do po'o ri po mi'a}

We have two more left, which I'll do in the next email.

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mu'o mi'= e .aionys.

.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. m= i patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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