From cowan Wed Jul 24 11:56:19 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: Long translation To: lojban-list Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 11:55:35 EDT In-Reply-To: <9107232107.AA11178@relay2.UU.NET>; from "Mark Shoulson" at Jul 23, 91 5:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO la mark. clsn. cusku di'e: > I could have used gugde instead of tumla and avoided some problems, > but the original implies "earth" and not "country." You probably want "tutra": x1 is territory of/belonging to/controlled by x2 > In fact, if I could find the gismu for "descendent" (I know there is > something which means that!) I could drop it entirely. This was just added: "se dzena". The place structure of "dzena" is: x1 is an ancestor of x2 by bond/tie x3 -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban