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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:54:00 -0300
From: "=?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
Subject: Re: lobbying for Lojban at the European Patent Office
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>P.S. one first step might be to lojbanize the letter to Van Miert, of
>which an Esperanto version is already on the net.

It took me about an hour to translate the first paragraph (out of 30),
so it may take a while to do it all. Most of the time I spent trying
to find suitable lujvo for "monopoly", "software", "cartel conference", 
and "dominance of communication interfaces". We're not at the point 
where we can translate this kind of document yet, we still need to
build a lot of vocabulary.

Anyway, here's the first paragraph (comments about the translation 
are welcome, please!):

ni'o so'iroi lei purjbima'i ku joi lei purjbina'a do gubni cusku 
le du'u do se raktu le ckape po'u lo'e venpavmei be lo samselpla 
i ca le cabma'i bu'u le girzu nunpenta'a pe la berlin do pu te pinka 
le du'u la mikrosoft cu mupli kei gi'e drani xusra le du'u ckape fa 
genai le nu le kagni cu barda giku'i le nu ky trovli lei ve cusku te 
jorne i do bitsku le du'u le do kagni cu ju'itce le di'u ckape    

Many times during recent months and years, you have publicly 
expressed your concern about monopoly dangers in the software 
area.  This month, at the Berlin kartell conference, you mentioned 
Microsoft as an example and correctly stated that it is not the size 
of the company but the dominance of communication interfaces 
which is dangerous.  You reassured us that your establishment 
is keeping a close eye on this danger.

co'o mi'e xorxes