On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:= 55 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

To elaborate:

I would say that the E= nglish {la'edi'u pe do} is "What you were just talking about&q= uot; colloquially, and in this context means "You are easily amused&qu= ot;.

The English of the whole thing is, "That you are easily amused is = apparent, but what you found funny is not."

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Jo= nes <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
And that's approx. what it was intended to mean.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Luke Berg= en <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

That's how I read it

On Sep 28, 2011 2:58 PM, "fagricipni" = <lojban707= @fagricipni.com> wrote:
> In response to = fagricipni writing:
>
> le nu zdile mi kei frili
>
> and explaining that= it was an attempt at translating: "I am
> easily amused."<= br>>
> On Wed, September 28, 2011 02:58, Jonathan Jones wrote: >> Ah.
>>
>> la'edi'u pe do frili se viska = .iku'i lo pa zdile be do cu na
>> go'i
>
> I = have definitely noticed that effects at being away from
> Lojban for = a number of years; upon a quick re-reading of the
> Draft Reference Grammar, the structure of each grammatical
> _co= ncept_ on its own seems to be recalled quite easily; it is
> the voca= bulary that is kicking my posterior end; ie,
> remembering which cmav= o "call up" which grammatical mechanisms.
>
> After a lot of analysis, I have finally been able to fully> translate both sentences. The first sentence I clearly see as
>= ; (after a lot of analysis): the referent of the immediately
> previo= us utterance of yours[1] is easily seen. I have to
> apologize for the long-winded translation [1] of "la'edi'= u pe
> do", but _I_ can't seem to figure out how to translat= e that in
> to better English. The second I think is: "However,= the one
> humorous thing of yours [almost certainly a reference to the
> &= quot;Walking Bear" story] is not (easily seen)."
>
>=
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