From w_i2l@yahoo.com Fri May 02 07:54:35 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 02 May 2003 09:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40507.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.124]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19Bbvn-0003iE-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 07:54:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20030502145404.26903.qmail@web40507.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [32.97.110.142] by web40507.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 02 May 2003 07:54:04 PDT Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 07:54:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Guillermo "Alcántara" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Prose & Cacophony To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1639906680-1051887244=:25880" X-archive-position: 283 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: w_i2l@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --0-1639906680-1051887244=:25880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii coi mi'e .eipipuz For a while I've been lurking lojban lists and yesterday I at last tried to write something on lojban. I wanted a new mail signature, kind of getting a quote. na'e darsi le nu djica tu'a le solri cu zvati le nicte lu'u ki'u le nu le kayjau le tarci cu mipri It stands, or tries to be something similar to: Dare not to long, the sun at night, 'cause tears hide stars. First of all I donīt know if itīs grammatically correct. Second, I want opinions to give the utterance a better shape, like lojban golf as someone pointed out. Third, don't know if it should have "ko" at the beginning if my intention is to have a mood as "know thyself". That phrase would be "ko djuna ko"? Forth, for me at least the part "ki'u le nu le ..." is a bit cacophonic is there a way out of it? Once I read that terminators are elidible to avoid sounding "ku ku cu"... ki'e _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Mi email ha cambiado usa: My email has changed use: galcantara@acm.org Si hoc legere scis tunc nimiopere cultus es! _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. --0-1639906680-1051887244=:25880 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

coi mi'e .eipipuz

For a while I've been lurking lojban lists and yesterday I at last tried to write something on lojban. I wanted a new mail signature, kind of getting a quote.

na'e darsi le nu djica
tu'a le solri cu zvati le nicte lu'u
ki'u le nu le kayjau le tarci cu mipri

It stands, or tries to be something similar to:

Dare not to long,
the sun at night,
'cause tears hide stars.

First of all I donīt know if itīs grammatically correct. Second, I want opinions to give the utterance a better shape, like lojban golf as someone pointed out. Third, don't know if it should have "ko" at the beginning if my intention is to have a mood as "know thyself". That phrase would be "ko djuna ko"?  Forth, for me at least the part "ki'u le nu le ..." is a bit cacophonic is there a way out of it? Once I read that terminators are elidible to avoid sounding "ku ku cu"...

ki'e



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Mi email ha cambiado usa:
My email has changed use:
galcantara@acm.org

Si hoc legere scis tunc nimiopere cultus es!
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Do you Yahoo!?
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