From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 19 02:09:27 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HeSdQ-0001RH-Lh for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:09:04 -0700 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 1HeSd6-0001Qk-PW for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:08:50 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90ED2CE4A5 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:08:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Please review # 001 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:08:14 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <985942.86388.qm@web88011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <985942.86388.qm@web88011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704190508.15142.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4307 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 18 April 2007 23:51, ANDREW PIEKARSKI wrote: > Hi all, > > Please review my translation and make appropriate suggestions. Apart from > the grammar, are there better ways of saying this?: > > "In the morning, I drink coffee quickly as I have to go to my kid's school > in order to meet his teacher." > > .i ti'u le cerni mi cu sutra pinxe lo ckafi ki'u mi bilga lenu klama le > ckule pe le mi panzi tezu'e lenu penmi le ri ctuca {ti'u} is normally used with a number, such as {ti'u li so [pe lo cerni]}; I'd say {ca lo cerni}. {cu} is not necessary after {mi}, but is grammatical. {ki'u} has to be either {iki'ubo} or {ki'u lo nu}. Instead of {mi bilga lenu klama}, I'd say {ei mi klama}. Pierre