From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 06 10:55:54 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9mqw-0007ax-NS for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:55:54 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9mqw-0007aq-Cx for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:55:54 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 10:55:54 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: i don't know what to do Message-ID: <20060806175554.GC11108@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <44D629D1.3010506@perpetuum-immobile.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D629D1.3010506@perpetuum-immobile.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3478 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Timo Paulssen wrote: > well, the subject isnt my problem, but translating it... > > a few days (weeks?) ago i asked this question on the lojban irc > channel and i was not quite satisfied with what i got... > > my idea was something like this: > > .i mi na djuno da poi mi gasnu ke'o .ei > > i forgot what the second method was, but it included using ma and > then adding kau to it... I actually would do something like "mi na djica" or "mi na jdice" or something like that. That's for "I haven't decided what to do"; if you're going for "I haven't decided what would be the best thing for me to do/what I *should* do", which is what the Lojban sounds like, then something like "mi siski lo ka traji xamgu kei lo se zukte [be fi what it is htat you're trying to acheive]". Or "mi djica co gasnu lo traji xamgu se zukte noi mi na djuno ke'o". Of course, I'm trying to be a Shoulsonite Lojbanist, so allow me to suggest ".ai cu'i .ua nai". The other way to do the same sort of sentence structure is "mi na djuno ma kau poi mi gasnu ke'o .ei". -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/