Return-Path: <@segate.sunet.se:LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@BITMAIL.LSOFT.COM> Received: from segate.sunet.se by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0syshb-0000ZSC; Sat, 30 Sep 95 05:35 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by segate.sunet.se (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 929B616B ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 4:35:02 +0200 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 23:33:45 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: CONLANG: Introducing _The Babel Text_ X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1864 Lines: 40 And: > > > > 5A. But the Lord camedown to see the city and the tower that the > > > > men were building. > > > i kui lo pa Cevni cu nitkla fau lo mukti be lo dahi nu voa catlu le > > > tcadu e le galdiu gie cao se zbasu be koa > > Isn't {mu'i} better than {fau lo mukti}? > My reason was that {fau lo mukti} explicitly says that it's the > nitkla event that is the mukti. {mui} is vaguer. But the coming down is not the motive to see the city! It's the other way around: seeing the city is what motivates the coming down. > See above. I suggest {ro remterdi}, where remterdi = x1 is a portion of > the earth's surface - or something like that. I can't even guess where that rem comes from. I suppose it is not {remna}. > Incidentally, I was delighted that you kept writing {zmadu} for {zbasu}. > Stupid mistakes like that are usually made only by me. Even Jorge > kae se snuti srera, I thought to myself. oi! It is not the first time that I do that. I would never use {zbasu} instead of {zmadu}, but I often do it the other way. > > > > 9A. That is why it was called Babel -- because there the Lord > > > > confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord > > > > scattered them over the face of the whole earth. > > > lae diu krinu le nu se cmene zo babel kei fa lo nu ro da poi munje zou > > > pa Cevni cfipgau ro bangu be da i fe le stuzi gau lo pa Cevni cu > > > toljmaji fi ro terdi > > Same comment about toljmaji: fe <-> fi. Also {ro munje} and {ro terdi} > > are not really the same as the whole world and the whole earth. > Okay. {ro munje} -> {ro remmunje}, x1 is a part of the universe. {ro mujypau} then. But were they really scattered to each part of the universe? Was each part of the universe such that the Lord scattered them over there? I don't think so, I think you need a mass in the x2 of toljmaji. Jorge