From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jun 03 13:47:38 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Huwz7-00049a-49 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:47:34 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Huwz0-00044Z-RG for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:47:31 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b21so302090ana for ; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:47:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bSK5qfZJIQdYaKQv1Kjl2ZeZJpd1EJ3EXwetJpAWFLsEfS18SIpBu+SxyACkPl90q2QlU49YuVBtahFrA01q9CbcIClg7UHPov2GWy5ky/kURsqcP+aJuIQnp9ogeDSoMz3Dk+wC+XIXQB1VqH5BxiAiOKP2ODLNzg0/aWnBrJc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uejcGnh194MSxDPCDXNuuvcz1aV9iOV6HpyuLt7sIF1DDo9rqHh94KwyEUX/R1wRtxc/yisUZ4Ubil0r0UDX568LahEU3QO6AM4CxL6BRPgSk81nq/wRKnuce8IcIzYQBzA6nlmVXfKqwuDBQFH2QTjan/EfjII9axgiLGq45pg= Received: by 10.100.194.7 with SMTP id r7mr2192149anf.1180903643952; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.42.12 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560706031347o204d8923u4985b8d6bc36d76f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:47:23 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: fanva 2 In-Reply-To: <2f91285f0706031155n545613f6qd571845dc051e172@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0706021536u380fc52eu611e6c6eaee1956@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560706030834w2eb71253l3b62f7c0f570e1fa@mail.gmail.com> <2f91285f0706031155n545613f6qd571845dc051e172@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4842 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 6/3/07, Vid Sintef wrote: > I'm so thankful to your reply, Jorge. je'e > We may figure it out by the context, but the phrase by > itself does not really say anything about what it is referring to. I don't > know, what do you think? I don't think you need to be more precise than the original when translating, but you can if you want to. > > > * I have no idea how to express "1990s". > > > > Perhaps something like {le me li 1990 dekna'a}. > > So, one way to say "the early-mid 1990s" might be {le me lirymidju be li > 1990 dekna'a}? No {me} in that case. Other than that, it looks fine. {lirymidju} can be {lirmidju}. The official rules even say that {lirymidju} is wrong, but that will probably change so that it will be an acceptable variant. > > > * Lastly, how would you express in Lojban those annotation markers like > > > [1][2][3]? > > > > How about {to'i pa bu toi}? > > {to'i}, the editorial unquote? Why unquoting from the beginning? It's an editorial comment. You can think of the rest of the text as being quoted and this is an editorial comment on that text. mu'o mi'e xorxes