From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Tue Mar 24 11:08:57 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 24 Mar 92 11:08 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA21917; Tue, 24 Mar 92 10:51:52 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA27274; Tue, 24 Mar 92 09:49:21 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA20858; Tue, 24 Mar 92 08:37:39 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA28661; Tue, 24 Mar 92 06:09:38 EST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA12311; Tue, 24 Mar 92 05:14:19 -0500 Message-Id: <9203241014.AA12311@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8434; Tue, 24 Mar 92 05:13:41 EST Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf012) id 4239; Tue, 24 Mar 92 05:12:57 EST Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 20:18:12 GMT Reply-To: CJ FINE Sender: Lojban list From: CJ FINE Subject: Re: a somewhat more difficult Lojban text X-To: lojbab@GREBYN.com X-Cc: Lojban list To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: ; from "Logical Language Group" at Mar 18, 92 1:19 am Status: RO I haven't seen anybody post the Burroughs text, so here rgoes. > > ni'o co'i lenu mi mi sanjybi'o kei mi co'a catlu la solys. noi se zgana > le nunpenmi New-topic at-the-achievement-of the-event I me conscious-become (end-abstraction) I begin look-at the-named Sola who is observed by-the event-of-meet. > > .icabo mi se spaji le cizra ke cinmo seljarco vi le flira noi piso'aroi > no'e cinmo seljarco Same-time I am surprised by-the strange kind-of feel-emotion display at the face which-incidentally point-almost-all-times [neutral feel-emotion] displays > > .i ledu'u dakau sy. se pensi kei mi na seldju [hint: two OSV order clauses] The-predication some-x-known by-S is thought (end-abstraction) by-me not known > > .iki'ubo mi pujeca cilre pimo'a lei bangu pe la marz. ge'u > .eku'i lei banzu be lenu mi na'o nitcu Because-of-reason I before-and-now learn [point-too-little-of the-mass language associated the-named Mars (end-relative)] and-in-contrast [the-mass suffices (link-sumti) for-the-event I typically need] > When I came to I looked at Sola, who was being watched by the meeting. I was surprised at the strange expression on her usually impassive face. What she was thinking I didn't know, as I had not learned enough of Martian languages, only just what I needed. I'm not sure of "mi mi sanjybi'o" - I became conscious of myself. I would be inclined to leave out the x2. I don't understand "se zgana le nunpenmi" - I've translated it literally, but "meeting" is ambiguous in English, so it works in translation. kolin