From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 30 13:48:41 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt66J-00016r-7e for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:40 -0700 Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com ([209.85.219.216]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt66B-00015S-Ah for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:38 -0700 Received: by ewy12 with SMTP id 12so6886770ewy.0 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=z6v3h7j1WaKNK9981JqboL94pDHgo2MQLvKiTlmCGu0=; b=UDwYT5uXzfEEt8cgv8BlmVp2zSB8X9UqmfpM7XpUocLPB4l7h5xeAyuoa8YARyy/Ee sXOe0onub60Wi75/vxHQuLGOs7oAbyB9z2D9KkzYDRS2kVget2j0yqIee2X556+LVoxq 67dlZTrb0p6EHXkEPquqFnyiuH/z12Xk6v1WA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=uspSU++yOnftwfgliv/saKBy/Q5FfGpnb/GrX/TlioagdqijHSirKwBdHYREmh+/NY BdGn92ck2b3KCt2ic1dsYrmCvDXWj5XGRfjItPpKdDzpOcRgcwUDNscqf6S2nYOznEB1 gEDsZErJyqhpBWOxcOtNlHeHayaB1b0GTJiGQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.211.156.19 with SMTP id i19mr6657920ebo.79.1254343702628; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:22 -0700 Message-ID: <16d9defd0909301348o30bb27d4x55540b2192f1eb7d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] How to reduce the amount of something? From: chris kerr To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00504502d28ed24cf50474d1a69f X-archive-position: 16279 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: letsclimbhigher@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --00504502d28ed24cf50474d1a69f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Someone on IRC asked for a lojban translation of: Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce the size of its nuclear weapons arsenal, and/or substantially reduce and restrict the role and/or missions of its nuclear weapons arsenal. I came up with: .i xusra lo du'u ma'a nitcu lo nu lo mergu'e ga jdika lo ni ri ratske xarci ku gi jitro lo zu'o pilno lo ra ratske xarci But there is something not right with using {ni} to talk about reducing the number of nuclear weapons. The closest we were able to get was: .i xusra lo du'u ma'a nitcu lo nu lo mergu'e ga jdika tu'a lo ri ratske xarci gi jitro lo zu'o pilno lo ra ratske xarci Is there a better way? mi'e .codrus. --00504502d28ed24cf50474d1a69f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Someone on IRC asked for a lojban translation of:

Resolved: The Unit= ed States Federal Government should substantially reduce the size of its nu= clear weapons arsenal, and/or substantially reduce and restrict the role an= d/or missions of its nuclear weapons arsenal.

I came up with:=A0 .i xusra lo du'u ma'a nitcu lo nu lo mergu&#= 39;e ga jdika lo ni ri ratske xarci ku gi jitro lo zu'o pilno lo ra rat= ske xarci

But there is something not right with using {ni} to talk a= bout reducing the number of nuclear weapons.=A0 The closest we were able to= get was:

.i xusra lo du'u ma'a nitcu lo nu lo mergu'e ga jdika tu= 9;a lo ri ratske xarci gi jitro lo zu'o pilno lo ra ratske xarci
Is there a better way?


mi'e .codrus.
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