From - Tue Dec 17 10:16:21 1996 Reply-To: Don Wiggins Date: Tue Dec 17 10:16:21 1996 Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: CONLANG: Write-only language, part 2 X-To: conlang@diku.dk To: John Cowan X-UIDL: 9838463af5b51b1e6ffe4b8e3e95862c X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1746 Message-ID: Spake thus Forest Sprite: >Worse writing (though less clause-heavy) from the Washington Post, Metro >section, Dec. 6th: > >"The head of a Northeast Washington charter school at the center of a >controversy over a tussle with a reporter portrayed herself as having a >passion for molding young blacks and being unafraid of confrontations with >institutions that she sees standing in her way." In Lojban: lo ralju belo'i xe nupre ckule nela nortist. .uacint,n. be'o poi se nunpro folenu jairda'a belo ternuzba cu skuski vo'a foleka xaurga'i loi citno xekre'a kei jo'u leka nalte'a lenu fapro loi truci'e poi pe'idai jai zunti tu'a ry. Interesting to note are the particles "be'o", "kei" and "cu" that delimit the scope of phrases and enable the relative clause to attach to the correct argument. lo ralju belo'i xe nupre ckule nela The principal of-the operators-of-the promise school associated-with-the nortist. .uacint,n. be'o North-east Washington , poi se nunpro folenu jairda'a belo that |is-opposing-in-an-event| about-the-event-of grasp-fight with-the ternuzba cu skuski vo'a foleka news-source express-describe herself as-having-the-quality-of xaurga'i loi citno xekre'a kei good-change the-mass-of young black-person , jo'u leka nalte'a lenu fapro in-common-with the-quality-of other-than-afraid-of the-event-of opposing loi truci'e poi pe'idai the-mass-of governing-system that evidential:opinion-of-another jai zunti tu'a ry. abstract interferes-with something-to-do-with her