From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 05 16:24:08 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HviNi-0001HJ-SZ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:24:07 -0700 Received: from mail.bcpl.net ([204.255.212.10]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HviNV-0001Gv-9A for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:24:06 -0700 Received: from webmail.bcpl.net (webmail.bcpl.net [204.255.212.24]) by mail.bcpl.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id l55NNYq9023182 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:23:35 -0400 (EDT) X-WebMail-UserID: turnip Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:23:35 -0400 From: turnip To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002700 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Not a Box (a lesson in lojban negation) Message-ID: <466A0DA5@webmail.bcpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4897 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: turnip@bcpl.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners The following is a translation of Anotinette Portis' "Not a Box" (http://www.amazon.com/Not-Box-Antoinette-Portis/dp/0061123226/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1 /104-8101861-8524715?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181085233&sr=8-1), which demonstrates nicely different type of lojban negation. Since this cute children's book loses a lot without the illustrations, I have appended to each line a description of the drawing on that page. The protagonist is a little child bunny. mu'i ma do ne'i zutse lo tanxe (bunny sitting in box) na'i go'i .i ti na tanxe (bunny sitting in racing car) do zukte le zu'o cpana le va tanxe ku ma (bunny standing atop box) na'i go'i .i ti ba'e na tanxe (bunny atop mountain) mu'i ma do cecla rento lo djacu lo tanxe (bunny squirting box with hose) na'i go'i .i mi pu ba'e cusku le sedu'u ti na tanxe (bunny as firefighter) xu caku do dasni lo tanxe (bunny wearing box) na'i go'i .i ti na tanxe (bunny as robot) xu do ca'o ne'i sanli leva tanxe (bunny stading in box) na'i go'i .i ti ba'e ba'e ba'e ba'e na tanxe (bunny in crow's nest of pirate ship, basket of hot air balloon, howdah on elephant, and as tugboat captain) .o'o ti mo (bunny standing inside box with cut-out window) --- (bunny sitting atop box, thinking hard) ti ponse be fa mi ba'e na'e tanxe (bunny in rocket ship, blasting off) --gejyspa