From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 05 06:13:14 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KQMLi-0008CD-Re for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:13:14 -0700 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KQMLc-0008BK-WB for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:13:14 -0700 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so1332263fga.0 for ; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:13:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=uU2qBfsXHQ0bWFpmCPelJC6QH3QTSRyi46DoW13B0r4=; b=cbFVgED3VVhuG1cmpBf1XKYqtVgSsx1vfD9Cii1Nb3hXn9SdM6chFz0aPyMl6BpyZR lcbrtVEMGkCR+JJQLyPWHaLJu7AbVHnCWa9fe6QKKzxRdQFbfxrA1inEF5/n8z5TTgNN tGHX2XS3e++MF7vmEn4/xrBh7V6OPoQ9ATTUE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=MbO4z9TkvIxR4ZqiaPM3a4mrdWC6iwheBv7EsefrdLp06jm00WHCalS6Tq/1LXReLN 6DqFAHYyRW+sndF0pYVbd8B6f/pNSiYATflikwwOq5PNLUEeKvYwVPzccVMlKxK3CrWG BBelB+ukJxPrqxtyotqfZ/ll6bMxXINEVRr4s= Received: by 10.86.95.20 with SMTP id s20mr11626168fgb.65.1217941983169; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.89.11 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560808050613r1cd8693bt7ef24b1995fda831@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:13:03 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: trying poe poetry translation In-Reply-To: <4897A98B.8080103@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <489718EF.5010308@gmail.com> <4897A98B.8080103@gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 785 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 8/4/08, peter hering wrote: > > A few minutes before he arrived it stopped raining. > pu so'u mentu le nu da klamu'o kei ba'o carvi That says: "before few minutes, his arriving had rained." You want something like: zi lo mentu be li so'u pu lo nu da klamu'o kei co'u carvi ("ba'o carvi" says it had rained, not that it stopped just then.) > George Bush has been the president for 7 years, 6 months, and 15 days. > ni'o la djordj.buc. cu merja'a ze'a ze nanca e xa masti e pamu [djedi] That says he was president for 7 years and that he was president for six months, and that he was president for 15 days. ".e" will distribute the sumti in different bridi. You need something like: ze'a lo nanca be li ze joi lo masti be li xa joi lo djedi be li pamu (Or perhaps "ce'o" instead of "joi".) mu'o mi'e xorxes