From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Fri May 28 11:28:00 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 28 May 1993 05:31:28 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8774; Fri, 28 May 93 05:30:38 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 2663; Fri, 28 May 93 05:31:49 EDT Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 10:28:00 +0100 Reply-To: Colin Fine Sender: Lojban list From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: easy text To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: Nice, easy, clear piece, Frank. I understood it with no trouble - one or two words gave me pause. 'mlatu salta tanxe' - cat-salad box - lovely. I'm not a cat-owner: is this a recognised concept? Has it a standard English term? 'to'e djica' - very nice phrase. '.i mi jmina lo djacu lo dertu le nu lo srasu tsiju cu banro' - I would use 'farvi' rather than 'banro' - to me, what happens to a see d is different from what happens to a seedling, and I would only use 'banro' for the latter. Your meaning's clear though. I'm also not 100% happy about 'jmina': I would use 'setca' This does not have a 'result' place, but I don't believe that the x4 of 'jmina' actual ly means a result in that sense (a 'nu') I think a ve jmina is what you get from doing the adding, not something that then happens. I would say .i mi setca lo djacu le dertu mu'ilenu lo srasu tsiju cu farvi '.i le mlatu cu catlu fi'o farna pagre [fe'u] le canko' I see what you were asking. I would say simply .i le mlatu cu canko [pagre] zgana the 'pagre' is optional - I would probably leave it out. .i mi zanru je nelci le do te fanva .i'esai co'omi'e kolin ======================================================================== There's a monkey on my shoulder | Colin Fine and it's telling me lies | Dept of Computing Just to stop me ever seeing | University of Bradford what's in front of my eyes. | Bradford, W. Yorks, England It tells me what the world is like| BD7 1DP and how I ought to be, | Tel: 0274 733680 (h), 383915 (w) And just what's gonna happen | c.j.fine@bradford.ac.uk if I ever dare be me. | 'Morris dancers do it with bells on' ========================================================================