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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: feathered serpent
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At 12:52 PM 5/28/03 -0700, xorxes wrote:

>la ketsyl cusku di'e
>
> > I'd like to translate "quetzalcoatl is a feathered serpent" into 
> lojban, how
> > is this try?
> >
> > la keitsyl,ko,atyl pilnu sicne
>
>I suppose that would be the English pronunciation of 'quetzalcoatl',
>in Spanish it would be more like ketsalkoatl. I'd guess the
>Nahuatl pronunciation would be closer to the Spanish, at
>least for the vowels.
>
>You don't need the commas, since oa can't be a diphthong in Lojban.
>
>Do you mean to say that the one named quetzalcoatl is a feathered
>serpent, or that 'quetzalcoatl' means 'feathered serpent'?
>The latter would be {zoi ny quetzalcoatl ny se smuni lu pimlu since li'u}.
>(I think in fact coatl is serpent, but the quetzal is a bird.)
>
>mu'o mi'e xorxes

I'd have said: zoi ny quetzalcoatl ny se smuni la'e lu pimlu since li'u
since the *meaning* is not the words "pimlu since", but what they represent.

An alternative is:
zoi ny quetzalcoatl ny se smuni mintu lu pimlu since li'u


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mi'e noras                                             noras@lojban.org
Nora LeChevalier