From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:47:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 32709 invoked from network); 19 May 1997 17:13:12 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 19 May 1997 17:13:12 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.28829296@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Mon, 19 May 1997 19:13:12 +0100 Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 01:36:11 -0700 Reply-To: Edward Cherlin Sender: Lojban list From: Edward Cherlin Subject: Re: cnino selsanga To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu In-Reply-To: <199705182314.TAA06598@unagi.cybernothing.org> Content-Length: 1961 Lines: 48 Message-ID: "Jorge J. Llambias" wrote: >la ed cusku di'e > >> cusku le panononotupcurnu > >Nice translation! A couple of comments: "le panononotupcurno" >means "each of the 1000 leg-worms", not "the 1000-leg-worm". >The latter might be "le pavnonynonynontupcurnu", or >better "le ki'ortupcurnu". > >Also, if you want the tupcurnu to be in the x1 place >of cusku you need to use a "fa" there. > >> mi plipe fu li sososo li'u > >I wouldn't put a number in the x5 of plipe. >Perhaps something like "mi plipe fu le sososomei". > >co'o mi'e xorxes I assumed that I would get some of it wrong. I realized that millipedes can't move on a number, and I knew there was a problem with the name. Thanks for pointing out the missing 'fa' and 'mei'. Now if I can work these corrections in and still fit the words to the tune...Let's try this. le ki'ortupcurnu The Thousand Legged Worm cusku fa le ki'ortupcurnu Said the thousand legged worm fi le drata ki'ortupcurnu To a thousand legged worm, fe lu xu viska le tuple be mi "Has anybody seen my leg? i. lenu na facki ku If it can't be found rinka lenu I'll have to hop around mi plipe fu le sososomei li'u On the other nine hundred ninety nine." .i sosomei Ninety nine, .i sosomei Ninety nine, .i mi plipe fu le sososomei On the other nine hundred ninety nine. .i lenu na facki ku If it can't be found rinka lenu I'll have to hop around mi plipe fu le sososomei On the other nine hundred ninety nine. -- Edward Cherlin Help outlaw Spam Everything should be made Vice President http://www.cauce.org as simple as possible, NewbieNet, Inc. 1000 members and counting __but no simpler__. http://www.newbie.net/ 17 May 97 Attributed to Albert Einstein