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From: Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>
Subject: [lojban] Re: le dei bangu
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la evgenis cusku di'e

> In search for an alternative Lojban logo he proposed
> "Let the language of this phrase be our language" 
[...]
> My attempts of translation:
> The most precise but a bit too long:
>       e'usai le bangu be fi dei cu bangu ma'a
> A shorter version:
>       e'usai le dei bangu cu bangu ma'a

Those work.

> (I could not avoid repeating {bangu} - is that possible?)
> The shortest one but maybe too vague:
>       e'usai tu'a dei bangu ma'a
> or:   e'usai dei jai bangu ma'a

{tu'a dei} is {le du'u/nu dei co'e}, which is hard to understand 
as a language. Similarly for {jai}.

To avoid repeating {bangu}, I suggest:

       e'usai le medeimoi cu bangu ma'a
       Let this phrase's be our language.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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