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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: balcurnu
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On Saturday 19 May 2007 19:16, Einar Faanes wrote:
> Is this a correct translation of the english text below?
>
> lojban:
>
> ni'o le balcurnu goi ko'a zbasu le dertu .e le munje .e lei remna .i
> ko'a du roda .ije ko'a du le nunji'e .i loi bradi be ko'a du loi remna
> pe loi minji du le nunmro

The last sentence is grammatical, but is pretty certainly not what you mean. 
{minji du} is a tanru, and making a tanru with {du} is pretty odd. Also {loi 
bradi be ko'a du} is not {loi bradi be ko'a cu du}, which is probably what 
you were thinking, but {loi bradi be ko'a be'o du}, another tanru. {du} is a 
cmavo, but acts like any brivla, including requiring {cu} sometimes, except 
for one thing: it can take {ra'o}, which makes sense for {go'i} and {no'a} 
but not for {du}.

> ni'o le balcurnu goi ko'a cu xabju vi ti .i pu bo le remna pu cusku le
> nu ri go'i .i mi cusku lu go'i li'u .i ko'a le nunji'e cu dunda gi'e
> lebna .i ko'a cu kakpa zbasu ro lo kevna be loi dertu poi selxa'u lei
> remna .i lei xamgu remna cu sinma ko'a .i loi bradi be ko'a cu djicu lo
> nu catra .i le jdapre cu cusku ga'u ti

ko'a xabju ma vi ti?

{cusku le nu} is semantically anomalous. Normally one cusku lo sedu'u co'e .a 
lu li'o li'u.

{ro lo kevna be loi dertu poi selxa'u lei remna}: This says that humans live 
in dirt. If they live in caves, it should be {ro lo kevna be loi dertu be'o 
poi selxa'u lei remna}.

mu'omi'e .pier.