From arj@nvg.org Tue Feb 01 17:48:07 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:48:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67] ident=[WXsZpNp+vIPh7GnWMctynWyE0qO22JWG]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cw9cb-0003Vn-0c for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:47:57 -0800 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]:22920 "EHLO grey.nvg.ntnu.no" ident: "[GhLQHo9ywte+XUj+t5vLbnem0/x2ICzX]" whoson: "-unregistered-") by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:47:47 +0100 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) by grey.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B208294755 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:47:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:47:36 +0100 (CET) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: sipna pemci In-Reply-To: <200502011915.55550.phma@phma.hn.org> Message-ID: References: <200502011915.55550.phma@phma.hn.org> X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-archive-position: 9402 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 18:44, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: >> le ckana cu bukpu xamsi >> .ije mi rirxe fo ri >> gi'e se marbi le ckukajna ckunu >> .i le bitmu cu blabi cmana >> noi sarji le tsani tsina be le draci crida >> .i bartu fa lo sligu brife >> .i ne'i ku mi snura > > Very pretty! One nitpick (and I've done it myself): {noi} doesn't parse. You > think in English (or Norwegian or probably any other Indo-European language) > "Ay is a bee which sees", but in Lojban that becomes "An ay bees which sees", > which doesn't parse. Oops. The fifth verse is now officially "gi'e sarji le tsani tsina be le draci crida". -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. (Wethern's Law)