Received: from mail-qa0-f61.google.com ([209.85.216.61]:43295) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TdLVa-00067n-NS; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:47:38 -0800 Received: by mail-qa0-f61.google.com with SMTP id d18sf3603789qae.16 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:47:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=YpFLI69ykigQvRBOMUpcXIeUT4fnnASjDVv2CUwQnSg=; b=PBjnnMu1CHk59Kk27vfiN5g9dDFW1ZRCJjngw3E8l7oa5GsgAxwvNzheh8/hjDjZSM 8Q8cdR1yXSSN313z2iMEZDrSpAEGI7KQPhbJ64HLT0rBOmCALrFzIVbFj4CAV0PDUY4u 8Ox60d/+Cl/TurGCdcMGuEkylbDA6k2UMPLD94QKiBCBuQfe17sKiFtC7+tCl9Qhq2NJ 9ZojXee6be7QV+f2fmyDnXfaKk/n2rfitZ1LQ4lmFSFwTjhTQvRGgsoDBPxlunvIO+2D 1S9PCfwbFN/c2a08K+2HldtWGEOcCosHo2OSgwNw5lyX65pxW+4Fnk8ad4YdGXUXcbz7 snYA== Received: by 10.49.24.14 with SMTP id q14mr3075351qef.17.1354024044084; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:47:24 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.49.0.212 with SMTP id 20ls1932866qeg.12.gmail; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.119.145 with SMTP id n17mr10662641yhh.22.1354024043313; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.119.145 with SMTP id n17mr10662639yhh.22.1354024043300; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from chausie ([2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id i63si1290811yhk.5.2012.11.27.05.47.22; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) client-ip=2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5; Received: from caracal.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD0F1A190 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:47:22 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] slasi je mlatu bo cidja lante gacri Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:47:23 -0500 Message-ID: <2086976.vgm5FDeeff@caracal> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.5 (Linux/3.2.0-32-generic; KDE/4.8.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <50B4B0F4.9090204@gmx.de> References: <2870272.FCeI0Dmx7b@caracal> <50B4B0F4.9090204@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: phma@bezitopo.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) smtp.mail=phma@bezitopo.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 13:24:20 selpa'i wrote: > If you place each "ke ... ke'e" part right under each other, you can see > that they overlap to a certain point, and the rest that does not overlap > gets a "je" to abbreviate it. > > ke [slasi] lante gacri ke'e je > ke [mlatu cidja] lante gacri ke'e > > [slasi] je [mlatu cidja] lante gacri > > > So as you can see, the original tanru gives us multiple readings, at > least one of which does make sense. But "slasi lante gacri" means "(plastic can) cover", not "plastic (can cover)", so it could mean a cover for a can of plastic, or a cover for a can made of plastic, but it doesn't mean that the cover is made of plastic. Pierre -- ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.