X-Digest-Num: 228 Message-ID: <44114.228.1252.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 01:32:28 -0700 From: Robin Turner Subject: lemumoi derdesku nuzda X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1252 Content-Length: 1950 Lines: 39 mi .e le mi speni noi se cmene la nalan. puzi jajgau loi slabu taxfu (I and my wife, whose name is Nalan, have just collected a mass of old clothes) .i lego'i djice lenu lego'e se dunda le derdesku selxrani (We want them to be given to the victims of the earthquake) .i ta'o la nalan. kei seljajgau taxfu cu zmadu ri'a lenu vo'a mutce nelci lenu taxfu ke terve'u ja zbagau (Incidentally, Nalan has collected more clothes than me, because she really likes buying clothes or having them made up) .i ta'onai ti'e le mi spepa'u cu cuska lenu loi cnino po'o taxfu se dunda .ei le derdesku selxrani ki'u ri mlinobli (Anyway, apparently my father-in-law said that only new clothes should be given to the earthquake victims because they are upper-middle-class people (bad translation - the turkish is "kaliteli insanlar" - "quality people", which translates equaly badly)) .i .oiro'a (social complaint!) .i mi cusku lu mi'o dunda le slabu taxfu le stuna prenu .i .oi paunai mi'o bilga dunda le cnino taxfu le stici prenu mu'i ma li'u (I say "We give old clothes to the people in the East [of Turkey]. Why the hell should we give new clothes to the people in the West?") .i ta'o mi nelci le slabu taxfu (By the way, I like old clothes) .i mi ca dasni lo palkrdjinu poi la nalan. pu dasni de'i lenu ri balcu'e tadni (I am currently wearing some jeans Nalan wore when she was a university student) .i zo'ovu'enai la'edi'u selcnicinse (Heh heh - it feels sexy) ni'o bazi cnino cteki loi karce .e loi beifonxa .e loi jecjibgu'u seljerna mu'i lenu derdesku xrani (Soon there'll be a new tax on cars, mobile phones and State employees' wages because of the earthquake damage) .i mi ponse lo karce (I own a car) .i la nalan. ponse lo beifonxa (Nalan owns a mobile phone) .i la nalan. jecta ckule ctuca (Nalan reaches in a State school) .i .ue.oi (What a bummer!) .i zo'oru'e baza na cnino taxfu (Ha - no new clothes for a while!)