From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:59:00 2010 Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list Date: Tue Dec 17 10:09:54 1996 From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: A challenge To: John Cowan X-UIDL: 5df426b4632f20307645a43dacbb2d23 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1299 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Dec 17 10:09:54 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - Message-ID: >>.i lu mi'a visydonborka'ogei .i ku'i ko smajo'ukemvizyzva li'u >> " We seeing-(you-well)-glad. However, you! quiet-and-(here-at) " >> >I don't know about making it into a single word, but I probably would >expect more UI markers! (and maybe fewer predicates. And probably mi >instead of mi'a: if the speaker knows enough to say that "we" are glad, >she's probably speaking on behalf of "we"). It seems to be really difficult to use fewer predicates, but that way would certainly be better Lojban. >za'a kanro .ui Evidential-I-observe-that (something) is-healthy and-I-am-happy-about-it. .oicu'iro'o for physical-non-complaint. >.i re'inai .ei ko zvati ti Not-ready-to-receive obligation you! at this-indicated. I don't know about that "re'inai", how about "ta'a" 'interruption'. >.ui za'ase'i fu'iro'ose'inai ko zvati ti >Maybe even some cmavo replacement for zvati? .o'e is closeness. .i lu .oicu'iro'odai .ui .i ta'a o'edai " Physical-non-complaint-empathy glad. Interruption closeness-empathy .e'uga'i li'u suggest-haughty. " That starting to look a lot better. Now if the "ta'a" can be eliminated then all the cmavo can be squished together and scoped with "fu'e... fu'o" and we're there.