From - Tue Dec 17 10:07:37 1996 Reply-To: Don Wiggins Date: Tue Dec 17 10:07:37 1996 Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: A challenge To: John Cowan X-UIDL: 46cb9b9ad195814c9cf1f51583dfde1b X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1907 Message-ID: The challenge: > One of Huck's eyestalks swerved on me. > "We're-glad-to-see-you're-all-right-but-now-shut-up-and-get-over-here" > Few other citizens of the Slope could squeeze all that into a single > GalThree word-blat. Not that that skill excused her rudeness. .i palo kalstani bela xuk. sukcarna fa'a mi .i lu mi'a visydonborka'ogei .i ku'i ko smajo'uvizyzva li'u .i so'u ru'a lo xabju bela salpo cu kakne lenu setca di'u lo pamei lujvo bebaula galcib. .i ku'i leka stati be tu'ara na'e rinselfraxu lenu ko'a nalclite .i palo kalstani bela xuk. sukcarna fa'a mi One-of-the eye-stalks of Huck sudden-turned towards me .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 see how to make this into a single word (except using "zei") and to make any sense. There are two distinct subjects the "we" and the "you!". Obviously, lojbab. has something up his sleeve. .i so'u ru'a lo xabju bela salpo cu kakne lenu Few<-I-postulate the inhabitants of-the Slope able-to the-event-of I am attempting to attach the evidential to "so'u" so that it is the fact that it is the fact the inhabitants with the ability are few in number is the subject of the postulation. I don't know if this works. setca di'u lo pamei lujvo bebaula galcib. inserting the-last-utterance the singular affix-compound in-language Gal-3. I have reused "lujvo" for "blat-word" it seems to me to fit in nicely. .i ku'i leka stati be tu'ara na'e However, the-quality-of skill at something-to-do-with-it other-than rinselfraxu lenu ko'a nalclite reason-to-be-forgiven-for the-event-of she being other-than-polite. ni'o co'omi'e dn.