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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] le bilma cinfo
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:34:39 -0400
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On Friday, October 18, 2013 07:57:37 Lormoral King wrote:
> Hello, it's me again.
>=20
> After having gone through the CLL (skipping some difficult parts), I
> decided to translate a short story to practice my new knowledge. It's a
> fable called The Sick Lion. Please let me know how well I did.
>=20
> le bilma cinfo
>=20
> i pa cinfo noi ke'a mutce tolcitno seri'a lenu le cinfo na kakne lenu bap=
li
> cpacu loi cidja cu jdice lenu tcica cpacu i ra xrukla le ri zdani gi'e
> vreta gi'e jifkritrazu'e leka ri bilma kei gi'e gasnu lenu leka ri bilma =
cu

I think "leka ri bilma kei" means "that his *den* was sick", but I'm not su=
re.=20
Does "ri" refer to the last sumti completed or to the last started sumti th=
at=20
is complete?

> gubni se djuno i lei danlu cusku leka kecti ije ro le go'i cu nonkansa

.i lei danli cu cusku .i na ka'e cusku lo ka co'e .i ka'e cusku lo sedu'u c=
o'e

> klama le zdani be le cinfo be'o noi le cinfo cu vlile citka le danlu i ba
> lenu so'i lei danlu pu simsa canci le lorxu cu sanli co bartu le kevna gi=
'e
> retsku lejei le cinfo cu kanro kei le cinfo i le cinfo cu spuda lu mi no'=
e
> kanro i ku'i ki'u ma do sanli co bartu le kevna i e'ocai ko nerkla le kev=
na
> tezu'e lenu tavla mi li'u i le lorxu cu cusku lu na go'i ki'e i mi cfaga'=
e
> ledu'u so'i jamfu prina cu nerkla ledo kevna i ku'i mi na viska le sinxa =
be
> ledu'u xrukla li'u
>=20
> i prije fa le se kajde be le xlali be le drata

Looks pretty good and much better than some stuff I've seen from rank=20
beginners. If you just drop the other cu in there, it parses. I'd say "lo"=
=20
several times you said "le", but which article to use is partly a matter of=
=20
Sprachgef=FChl.

Pierre
--=20
When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates.
J=E1 n=E3o percebe nada, j=E1 n=E3o percebe nada.

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