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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:32:26 -0500
From: SwiftRain <swiftrain@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: lo lunra selgusni ninmu
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Robin Turner wrote:
> 
> > lu lo lunra selgusni ninmu li'u
> 
> Beautiful - I actually think the Lojban sounds better than the 
> English, which is quite an achievement when you're translating.
 
actually the lojban is the original, le selsku pu lojbo se finti mi. 
 
the english translation is also mine, but se'o it doesn't capture as
much of my meaning.  english demands absurdly simple tenses.  the tense
of [le nu ko'a mi xanjai] should be something like: [puzuku
bazuku.a'o].  (doi certu jbopre do'u: is that valid lojban?  can i give
a bridi more than one tense?  & can i attach an attitudinal to a tense?)