On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Pierre Abbat <= ;phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:02:18 qx4096@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm a little confused about {baziku ca le nitce}. I would have tho= ught that
> would be "a short time from now but during the night" rather= than "a little
> later in the night" because I thought that when {ba} has no sumti= it is
> relative to the present.

Would ".ibazibo ca le nicte" work? You can connect two sent= ences with "ibabo",
meaning that the second one occurs after the first.

=A0 While ibazibo ca lo nicte is definitely correct and unambi= guous, baziku ca le nicte isn't wrong. =A0 Since you are telling a cont= inuous narrative in "story time", the listener will pretty much a= ssume everything is relative to the events of the story (you could make thi= s explicit with a sticky tense -ki construction at the beginning, if you wi= sh), unless you specifically cancel out that assumption with a "nau&qu= ot;.

=A0

> The sentence with "someday" in it that I was trying to trans= late is
> "Annemarie thinks that maybe someday she will be able to give Ele= n back her
> necklace," which I have translated as {la .anmyris. pensi lodu= 9;u bazuku
> kakne lonu xruti lo cnebo jemna la .elen.}. I also wonder if {cnebo je= mna}
> is not a good translation for "necklace".

I think you've found a word that's not easy to translate to L= ojban. As to
"necklace", how about "nebjmeclupa"?

=A0 I'd go with "ca da" or "ca lo balv= i" for "someday"

=A0 For necklace I would and have= used "nebja'i"

> How do I say "in the context of ..." like "in the episo= de X, Y happened".

I'm not sure. You may want "va'o" or "ca'o= ".

=A0 =A0Yes, va= 'o is appropriate here.

=A0

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> How do I say that someone is named something? I tried {lo tolcitno je = makfa
> ninmu noi cmene la mydyr.gatyl.} but to specify that someone is named<= br> > something, it seems like it would be necessary to say that they are na= med
> the word itself, not what the word refers to, so I tried using {zo} in= stead
> of {la} but the parser didn't like that.

Use "lu ... li'u".

= =A0 The point here that may have escaped =A0your notice, qx4096 (do you hav= e a name, btw??), is that "mydyr.gatyl.", while a single name, is two words (hen= ce the periods). =A0Therefore "zo" won't work. =A0You need a = lu/li'u to quote more than one word.

=A0= =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 --gejyspa, slowly trying to catch up on email