From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 11 05:36:35 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:36:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EaZ50-0000Rt-Gb for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:36:34 -0800 Received: from dionysos.oderland.com ([213.115.211.26]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.54) id 1EaZ4x-0000Rm-NN for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:36:34 -0800 Received: from handgran by dionysos.oderland.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EaZ4n-0005lo-Mx for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:36:21 +0100 Received: from 85.226.150.186 ([85.226.150.186]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user sunnan@handgranat.org) by handgranat.org with HTTP; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:36:21 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <2426.85.226.150.186.1131716181.squirrel@handgranat.org> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:36:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Australian anthem From: sunnan@handgranat.org To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dionysos.oderland.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lojban.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32082 32082] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - handgranat.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-archive-position: 2534 X-Approved-By: sunnan@handgranat.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sunnan@handgranat.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners > I tried to translate the first two lines of the Australian anthem: > > "Australians all let us rejoice > For we are young and free" > > {.i loi ro sralo poi ma'a ku'o ko gleki .i se ki'u bo le go'i cu citno > gi'e > zifre} > > Is this correct? > jbofi'e couldn't quite parse your ku'o-usage, but I don't know exactly what's wrong. Not counting meter, I prefer the simpler: .i doi ro sralo ma'a ko gleki ki'u ledu'u ma'a cu citno gi'e zifre