Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Wed, 18 Mar 92 07:41 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA14825; Wed, 18 Mar 92 06:48:00 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA19010; Wed, 18 Mar 92 06:43:01 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA22687; Wed, 18 Mar 92 06:09:47 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA06400; Wed, 18 Mar 92 06:08:40 EST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA19178; Wed, 18 Mar 92 02:35:26 -0500 Message-Id: <9203180735.AA19178@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1910; Wed, 18 Mar 92 02:32:24 EST Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf012) id 6037; Wed, 18 Mar 92 02:31:42 EST Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1992 00:43:14 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: simple Lojban text - how about giving it a try, folks X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed Mar 18 07:41:50 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Simple Lojban text translated from McGuffy's Primer. (McGuffy's Readers are a set of books used since the 1830's in teaching children to read English, primarily by religious fundamentalists (hence the heavy moralistic tone). These texts should be readable by pretty near anybody who has gismu and cmavo lists (the newest version of the lists were used, but you shouldn't have too much trouble with an older list. The grammar is relatively simple, there are few lujvo, and most of those are easily decomposable. Let's have everyone give it a try. I ask one of the other Lojbanists on the list to post a translation after a couple of days, preferably interlinear. (Mark S.: care to post a Shoebox translation and explain what and how?) lojbab, for the Tues. nite DC group 1. le nanla joi le nixli cu kelci .i xamei ke cmalu ke nanla je nixli .i ko zgana lenu rapli djine litru .i ko na dukse sutra ke rapli djine litru .i cumki fa lenu farlu gi'e seri'abo se xrani .i lo nanla .e lo nixli cu se minde fi to'ebo leka to'e clite nunkelci 2. me le vanci canci solri ni'o ko catlu le solri .i ko viska lenu ri dizlo klama vi le stici .i ma pu zbasu le solri .i la cev goi ko'a go'i doi verba ne mi .i ri pu zbasu le solri .e le lunra .e le tarci .i ganai la cev. viska mi gi'e djuno roda poi mi zukte gi ko'a ja'e tirna selbacru be mi .i doi mi ko bacru no valsi poi xlali gi'e zukte noda poi xlali semu'i ledu'u la cev. na zanru lo xlali valsi .a le xlali selzukte