Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 04:40:40 -0500
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab>
Message-Id: <199412200940.AA15110@access1.digex.net>
To: cbogart@quetzal.com
Subject: Re:  Suggestions?
Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
Status: RO

>1) How do you say "seven years ago"?  I can do it awkwardly with "temci"
>(something like: ca le se temci be le zemei nanca bei le cabdei) but I can't
>think of anything simpler.  I don't like "pu le zemei nanca" because it
>means 'before seven years', but it doesn't say *which* seven years, so it
>doesn't seem logically correct.

I do this with "pu (or pu'o) le puzi nanca zemei" or ca le prulamji nanca zemoi
(or do you want bimoi - the English is vague).  Exactly 7 years, though,
might involve citsi or satci.

>2) I need a good tanru for "envy".  "Fengu djica" is close...
>

Some varieity of jilra, I presume.  Did you use the long-form English
dictionary on the ftp site.  It has "envies" as an entry.

(I have as yet had no feedback on the dictionary file.)

lojbab