wrote: > Should the title be {lo'i xanto cu senva} or {loi xanto cu senva}? > -epkat > > On 8/5/06, Matt Arnold wrote: > > That fact is very relevant to Lojban and how we translate the > title. I > > was thinking about this in relation to the title of Vernor Vinge's > > latest science fiction novel "Rainbows End". Vernor Vinge said > when he > > was a guest of honor at this year's ConFusion science fiction > > convention that he very deliberately wanted it to be plural, not > > possessive. > > -epkat > > > [ snip ] --Apple-Mail-2-423590018 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

In the second=A0 part of = the Making Of video, they mention how the film was named about 4 and a = half minutes into the video.=A0

Describing how to end a = little kid's bedtime story that didn't have a plot to begin with, one of = the creators said "And then the big elephant came with a big snout and = he blew the story out"

John E Clifford = wrote:

The = barest Lojban form is as indeterminate between these (andf a few others) = as the English.=A0 So=A0give it the simplest translation possible.=A0 I = gather that the "plot" etc. does not bear very=A0heavily on what the = title means anyhow.

.ie

mu'omi'e = .aleks.

On Aug 5, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Nathaniel Krause = wrote:

The title has two meanings (that I can think of) in = English: a) "Elephants are dreaming" or b) "In general, elephants do = dream." So, in order to be really sure how to translate it, we should = know which the original author meant.

-sen

Matt = Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com><= /B> wrote:
Should the = title be {lo'i xanto cu senva} or {loi xanto cu = senva}?
-epkat

On 8/5/06, Matt Arnold wrote:
> That = fact is very relevant to Lojban and how we translate the title. = I
> was thinking about this in relation to the title of Vernor = Vinge's
> latest science fiction novel "Rainbows End". Vernor = Vinge said when he
> was a guest of honor at this year's ConFusion = science fiction
> convention that he very deliberately wanted it = to be plural, not
> possessive.
> -epkat
>
[ snip = ]

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