From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 30 15:37:28 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:37:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HC2XX-0007q1-Ok for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:37:28 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HC2XU-0007pq-0O for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:37:27 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41585CE7ED for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:37:06 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: POM: Give him one! Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:32:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <040B18B6-711D-40FF-A9BD-8EE0D8C53FF8@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <040B18B6-711D-40FF-A9BD-8EE0D8C53FF8@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701301832.28230.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: -9 X-Spam-Bar: - X-archive-position: 3970 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 Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:22, Cortesi wrote: > Continuing the screenplay (http://www.tassos-oak.com/tempp/ > barsoomian.html) > > Cut to a wordless scene of John Carter waking on Mars and discovering > his surroundings, which include a stone structure he does not > recognize to be an incubator of the Green Men. > > A party of Green Warriors on thoats ride over the crest of the hill > and see Carter as he is discovering how amazingly high he can leap in > the low gravity of Barsoom. What's a thoat? > DOTAR NORS > > ua xunpre .i. go'i ba catra loi sovycifnu > > SUPER: A Red One! He will kill the hatchlings! > > (discovery) red-person. (last bridi) future kills the mass of > individuals who are egg-infants. > > {ri} or {go'i}? {xunpre} is a bridi, not a sumti. Neither. {ta} or {tu}. > TARS TARKAS > > ui ko denpa .i. no xunpre ka'e du'i plipe > > SUPER: Wait! No Red One jumps so! > > (urgent) you-imperative wait. Zero red-person innately-able so-much- > as jumps {ui} isn't "urgent", it's 'happy". {ka'e du'i plipe} is ungrammatical. {ka'e plipe du'i} or {du'iku ka'e plipe}. > {mi ckire la noras} for that difficult sentence; I had no idea how to > say "jumps so" == "can jump like that." All the pro-sumti refer back > to something that was said; here we want to refer to something seen > but not (yet) uttered. Makes you respect the terseness of English... You could also use {tai}. phma