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From: "Chris Howlett" <chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: More Lojban word queries
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Ah, I see. That, then, is more useful. I assume it has an attendent
terminator?

Chris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org 
> [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org] On 
> Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell
> Sent: 26 August 2004 23:35
> To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: More Lojban word queries
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:30:26PM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote:
> > Ok, I more-or-less get "tu'a" and "la'e" now, but "sei" is still 
> > eluding me. Surely the example you just gave would be translated as 
> > (roughly) "zo .oinai cu se cusku la meiris."?
> 
> That's one way to do it.  The other way is:
> 
> lu .oi nai sei se cusku la meiris li'u
> 
> This comes up when translating *very* long pieces of 
> quotation with "...", said Alice, "..." in the middle.
> 
> -Robin
> 
> -- 
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** 
> http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn > Lojban: 
> "Homonyms: Their Grate!"
> 
>