Received: from mail-ye0-f189.google.com ([209.85.213.189]:59354) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TcN1w-00043z-3g; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:57 -0800 Received: by mail-ye0-f189.google.com with SMTP id r9sf3190792yen.16 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=s5MErCMa9gsp+xJ9pG9t+mwbtbrmvxJEaPebdESAAJo=; b=SORjGPzwhd91gOeCWzIw7gEUDrvP5fbw7OoJA24y/7rzDuW75CIpOP1j+EaKCP66yU zHGcHfwfbX3dGX8dNWS3lCtxaNfUwXn5ZCr1IsDsc6MSSGDcjfWWbm8dhvWbj4Lzv5+3 ecZhLR6jPslFz9SsrkQ8pziItcWINsxcHDl0M2YOTOI4X0L/lYCpo1JK2zuAj3A13/Ke 7+x6Zqb+2MIT7QRdItzz2kJpmzowhhMzmnDaIQuXTnlDjjwXly6rLjuq/hd1SPGGF4t8 PRzz1nEEuCcOimEnmSi81BM2/hEae7MdlwQ09wuYLsKtR/Y/o/XGyYHNs6g1jNNRW4nb st8A== Received: by 10.49.58.140 with SMTP id r12mr1428494qeq.35.1353791565061; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:45 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.49.128.230 with SMTP id nr6ls1001084qeb.39.gmail; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.101.64.17 with SMTP id r17mr1290525ank.13.1353791564750; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.101.64.17 with SMTP id r17mr1290524ank.13.1353791564737; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from chausie ([2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id h50si714842yhi.3.2012.11.24.13.12.44; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) client-ip=2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5; Received: from caracal.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6CEF2E76B for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:12:43 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: ma xe fanva zoi gy Countless stars were twinkling in the sky gy Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:12:44 -0500 Message-ID: <1410965.0A3Eqz1JoD@caracal> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.5 (Linux/3.2.0-32-generic; KDE/4.8.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <6d0543ad-85f1-4bf1-a2d2-1dd6ce37e8c3@n8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> References: <67d99907-4a24-4a62-8375-ca38bca9d13f@googlegroups.com> <6d0543ad-85f1-4bf1-a2d2-1dd6ce37e8c3@n8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: phma@bezitopo.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) smtp.mail=phma@bezitopo.org Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / On Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:26:33 ianek wrote: > I'd try to translate it as {ci'i tarci pu carmi bu'u lo tsani}, but I > may be very wrong. There's no simple word for twinkle, flicker or > blink. I'd say {kliniota} for "blink", but that probably wouldn't be understood by= a=20 non-French-speaker. A possible word for "twinkle" is {camdesku}. The number of stars isn't infinite, it's just too many for humans to count.= You=20 could say {ni'e bacterkancu}, but that's a bit long. Pierre --=20 When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. J=E1 n=E3o percebe nada, j=E1 n=E3o percebe nada. --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@= googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= -beginners?hl=3Den.