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From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 03:58:53 -0400
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>ny jgari le sigvau lei molctebi noi kandi xunre

le sigvau == the cigar container, but why would N be holding that in
eir mouth?

>le sigdanmo ga'ufa'a sirji le jelca sigyfa'o le mokca be le nu preja lo
>kalsa 

Congratulations.  I just had my first experience of literary awe WRT a
sentence in lojban.  That was _beautiful_.  IMO, the beauty is in the
underlying expectation of logic: expecting a description of relationship
of movement, specifically to a 'point' in the physics/math sense, 'le nu
preja lo kalsa' comes completely by surprise.

Anyone who says that lojban can't express subtle thought because it's
logical hasn't played with it enough.

>i le se pensi be ny darno 

Are you sure you didn't mean

le se pensi be ny cu darno 

?  The parser finds no bridi in your version.

>la pedrot tolcanci le ragve be le barja galjbu gi'e
>punji lo kabri gy gi'e masno tisygau ky lo xunre vanju

<blush>  It was only here that I realized what 'ny' reffered to, because
I was trying to deal with 'gy'.  I thought 'ny' was someone whose name
started with N., not nescessarily 'le ninmu'.

Oops.

>i lu do terpreti ma le du'u xukau ri ba fasnu li'u

Is the 'ri' here referring to the 'ma'?
If so, seems like an odd choice; why not just say ma?

>to ba di'a ranji toi

Glad to hear it; wonderful so far.

-Robin

-- 
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ 	BTW, I'm male, honest.
... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our
own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our
desires" -- is all that we have left.  --- Michael Korda, _Power!_

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