From pille@mac.com Tue Nov 30 03:36:28 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:36:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.45]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CZ6J2-0002dk-IE for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:36:28 -0800 Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id iAUBaRAP026183 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (pd955b4fe.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.180.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id iAUBaOu3011727 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:36:26 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <20041130072533.GZ25791@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <1aa.2c5158bd.2edd0ad9@wmconnect.com> <20041130033047.98963.qmail@web41908.mail.yahoo.com> <20041130072533.GZ25791@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0F8F74C5-42C4-11D9-9156-000393B76BE4@mac.com> From: Jan Pilgenroeder Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: suck Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:36:22 +0100 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-archive-position: 894 X-Approved-By: pille@mac.com 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: pille@mac.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Am 30.11.2004 um 08:25 Uhr schrieb Robin Lee Powell: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:30:47PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: >> >> --- MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: >> >>> Is the following a correct way to translate "The baby sucks its >>> mother's breast."? >>> >>> le cifnu cu sakci le jipno be le tatru be le ra mamta >> >> lo cifnu cu sakci lo ladru lo tatru > > Babies are not suction. Yep, seems the definition of sakci mixes up the sucker and the event of sucking. "Suction" should probably rather be "nu sakci" or "ka sakci". Outer space (from the example you gave in a previous mail) is not suction either. Bye, Jan. -- Jan Pilgenroeder Plassmannshof 21 57439 Attendorn