From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 10 21:12:26 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 10 May 2006 21:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fe2XK-0008MB-PL for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:12:26 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fe2XI-0008M4-Tg for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:12:26 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 292A68FD; Thu, 11 May 2006 04:12:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban TEM ID Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 00:12:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605110012.24536.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 3186 X-Approved-By: phma@phma.optus.nu X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:54, Matt Arnold wrote: > I'm recording a new I.D. segment in Lojban for an online radio show of > comedy music which I co-host. (http://dementiaradio.org/) The ordinary > sound file says the following: > > "You're listening to The Toad Elevating Moment on Dementia Radio. > Ridiculous!" > > I translated it as this: > > {do ca'o te benji la ze'i nu lafti bo banfi la fenki te cradi .i te ckasu} > > "You are in progress of receiving a transfer of that which is named a > short time interval of the event of lifting amphibians, from that > which is named crazy broadcasting station. That which is a topic of > ridicule!" la fenki te cradi is the species of amphibian, and {bo} is unnecessary since there are only two brivla in the tanru, which means "lifting amphibian". You want {la ze'i nu lafti lo banfi kei la fenki te cradi}. banfi ci da .i loi pipybanfi .e loi salmandera .e loi sincybanfi cu klesi loi banfi. Lojban does not distinguish between frogs and toads; both are pipybanfi. There is no clear taxonomic boundary between frogs and toads. phma