From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Sep 21 09:45:13 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 20 Sep 1993 12:54:04 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 20 Sep 1993 12:53:58 -0400 Message-Id: <199309201653.AA01214@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8462; Mon, 20 Sep 93 12:52:04 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 5389; Mon, 20 Sep 93 09:48:20 EDT Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 23:45:13 +1000 Reply-To: Nick Nicholas Sender: Lojban list From: Nick Nicholas Subject: Re: TEXT: A card from Andrew X-To: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK X-Cc: Lojban Mailing List To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: from "Colin Fine" at Sep 17, 93 03:39:45 pm Status: RO X-Status: To Colin Fine respond I thus: #.i lemi kakne be lenu tavla fo (?) la modiorul. pu na xamgu ca #lenu co'a surla #.i leNI mi kakne lenu tavla BAU la mOdiorul. NA PU xamgu ca #lenu co'a surla The x4 of {tavla} is still a language, isn't it? #.iku'i mi ca snada tavla je milxe snada jimpe la modiorul. #.iku'i mi ca snada BO BANGYTA'A je KE milxe snada jimpe la mOdiorul. Aha! It's the old problem of what is the place structure of a je-compound. I don't think what la andruc. had is wrong, strictly speaking; {la mOdiorul} is still the x2 of {jimpe}. #.i le solri cu tsali dirce .isemu'ibo .ei mi'a limna le lalxu .e le #limna badvau #.i le solri cu CARMI dirce .iJA'Ebo .AI mi'a limna #le lalxu .e le SELYLIMNA badvau Whatever I may have said in the lujvo paper, {limna bravau} is still an intelligible tanru, even if {selylimna bravau} is more "correct". I assume, by the way, that {bravau} is intended ("swimming pool"), rather than a moat ({bandu vasru} --- defensive container, in the new rafsi interpretation.) #.i mi'a mi'a xruti la budopect mu'i lenu viska le cinri selviska #.i mi'a mi'a xruti la bUdopect. mu'i lenu viska le cinri selviska {lei}, I'd say; he's not seeing all there is to see. #.i mi ba zvati la .iorkcr. ca la pabidjed. #.i mi ba zvati la .iorkcr. ca la pabidjed. When the {se broda} is a {mela'ezoze'u} rather than a {mela'ezoze'i}, I think {diklo} makes more sense than {zvati}. #.i mi cusku la'edi'u mu'i lenu le mi jboste ca zvati la lidz. Ditto; and I had to think a bit before I realised that he wasn't referring to lojban-list, and that the list was left behind; but I doubt the wording need be changed to make this more explicit. The corrections are minor; Andrew Smith has done a good job, and I do think it's time he got published in ju'i lobypli (he wrote a couple of good pieces last year, I recall). This card certainly wouldn't be out of place in JL19. ############################################################################## # Der Mensch liegt in groesster Noth, You are reading another .sig from # Der Mensch liegt in groesster Pein; the NICK NICHOLAS .sig Factory. Mail # Je lieber moecht ich im Himmel sein. [nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au] for your # -- Des Knaben Wunderhorn, _Urlicht_ .sig suggestions. [Padding Space]