From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 18 10:21:30 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Moh9G-0002RJ-2g for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:21:30 -0700 Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com ([209.85.218.211]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Moh9B-0002QV-Ab for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:21:29 -0700 Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so818318bwz.34 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:21:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=cKE1APlS6m6wDb3mNWCxVTXexyLgJKlYhkmtjq47mls=; b=nQ7+mEzOiDWQFc13nM5KN67NEaXUG8QQx9vYjSSynmROtSgLF8/xghpzsxoFuy5jLu KagjmheZXsFmY0jHDVOtcjNmc9rCKkrIMgsU54/BV8LRf/L7t6EY9qj9aNf4oEM6JIEW JVjRLYLnsFg/zZuY2fMh59D0XLvsE1CT4L5x4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=c6VHCPZGqRNLY5aWELpl5Uu4SAb/5116dOuCkmZ2+ze034Kvf+W4EIv8vBnv6yO5fw sTy8XWVXgJxohN7m3ou3lqh0o7+u9IvOSyqartEPfmSO4letkdEAQFPOjfDO41TpnN2u ++SXc/pd13+rjYCHbVC0gJdPnFhq6TvhCospw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.14.140 with SMTP id g12mr485317faa.50.1253294478497; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:21:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:21:18 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation From: Ivo Doko To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-archive-position: 2380 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ivo.doko@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners 2009/9/18 : > What's an English literal version of the same? > > stevo Wiktionary is your friend: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bark_up_the_wrong_tree :) As far as I understand it, it is also used when someone is accusing a wrong person of something, which also falls under following a false lead I guess.