From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Sep 11 12:21:30 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EEXOM-0004Lf-2d for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:21:30 -0700 Received: from miranda.org ([65.124.18.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EEXOJ-0004LT-Au for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:21:29 -0700 Received: (qmail 3321 invoked by uid 534); 11 Sep 2005 13:21:24 -0600 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:21:24 -0600 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Questions (literally) Message-ID: <20050911192124.GC29546@miranda.org> References: <200509111152.03643.scottr@synthiotics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200509111152.03643.scottr@synthiotics.com> Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2045 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:52:02AM -0700, Scott wrote: > 3) What do you do for a living? > .i do gunka ma While that could be interpreted the way you want, I think it is more likely to be read as "what are you working on?" You probably want "ma jibri do" > 4) Do you have any pets? > .i xu do ponse le satre danlu > There is no word for "pet" in my lojban dictionary (the one I generated at > jbovlaste), so I had to make this one up. You might consider "prami danlu" instead. Certainly one legally ponse's pets, so it is good enough. > Turning it into lujvo is more than I want to bite off at the moment, > so I stuck with tanru. There is no particular need to turn it into a luvjo, anyways. Besides, most people making lujvo shouldn't be doing so. It is a subtle process. > 6) Do you have any children? > i. xu do ponse le verba xu do rirni or xu panzi do > 8) What is your favorite food? > .i do zanfri ma cidja Not grammatical. You've got two selbri. I'd go with something like "ma poi do zanfri cu cidja" > 9) Ginger or MaryAnn? > .i xu do nelci la .djendjr .onai la .meri,an. > It's ungrammatical in English, and only readily understandable to an older > portion of American males anyway. But I thought I'd throw it in there. At > least I attempted to make it grammatical in lojban. la djendjr ji la meri,an This allows for the best answer of ".e". And captures the vagueness. > 10) What color is your cereal bowl? > .i le cerni sanmi palta cu skari ma > My dictionary contains no word for cereal or for bowl. So I settled for a > "morning meal plate" tanru, which really doesn't convey what I wanted it to > (especially since "plate" is entirely the wrong word). ma se skari lo do cerni gurni tansi -- Jay Kominek