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The best translation for the word "tao" is "way".  The way that you can say 
is not the eternal way.  I could be wrong, but I do not think the word 
"rinka" represents the proper translation of the word "tao".


>From: Jens-Wolfhard Schicke <jens.schicke@hvf-bs.net>
>Reply-To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
>To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
>Subject: [lojban-beginners] Tao Te Ching
>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:09:53 +0200
>
>I decided it would certainly help my lojban if I tried to translate
>something: So here is the first chapter of the TTC
>
>- One
>ni'o pa mai
>
>- The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
>.i le rinka poi le nu ke'a se ciksi kei cumki cu to'e vitno
>- The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
>.i le cmene poi le nu ke'a cmene fi da kei cumki cu to'e vitno
>- The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth.
>.i le se to'e cmene cu krasi lo tsani .e lo terdi
>- The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
>.i le se cmene cu krasi ci'i dacti
>- Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
>.i da na'e djica .inaja da lifri le cizra
>- Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations.
>.i da djica .inaja da lifri le dacti
>- These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as 
>darkness. Darkness within darkness.
>.i li'i go'i du li'i go'e. .ije le cmene be le go'i cu frica le cmene be le 
>sego'i .i na jimpe fi le si'o go'i
>- The gate to all mystery.
>.i ri vorme ci'i cizra
>
>I put every sentence into the program on lojban.org and it parsed, but i
>assume there are some semantical errors... so is anybody here fluent
>enough in lojban to tell me where what I wrote is wrong or bad lojban?
>
>    Jens
>
>

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