X-Digest-Num: 38 Message-ID: <44114.38.125.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:45:17 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: First stab X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 125 Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 45 Ivan Stojic wrote: > mi rinsa do "I greet you". Correct. > .i mi se cmene ivan. "I am named Ivan". You left out the word "zo" before "ivan." which must be used to make it into a quotation (there are also other ways to do so); in Lojban we say "I am named 'Ivan'". This is ungrammatical but intelligible. > .i croatian. ve jbena "Croatia is my birthplace." You left off "la" before "croatian." > .i la lojban mi se prami "Lojban is loved by me." Correct. > ni'o mi pacna le drani ku le se ciska "[New subject] I hope the correct thing, the writing". This is grammatical but not sensible; it gives "pacna" an unwanted x3 place. You probably want: mi pacna le nu le se ciska ku drani I hope-for the event-of (the writing is-correct). > I wonder how close is what I wanted to say to what I said ;))) Much better than I did on my first stab! BTW, Goran Topic (amadan@usa.net) is our other Croatian Lojbanist. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)