From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sun Nov 26 13:59:01 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 26 Nov 2000 21:59:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 38425 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2000 21:59:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 26 Nov 2000 21:59:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ci.egroups.com) (10.1.2.81) by mta1 with SMTP; 26 Nov 2000 21:59:00 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.119] by ci.egroups.com with NNFMP; 26 Nov 2000 21:59:00 -0000 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:58:58 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: Problematic entries in the lujvo list Message-ID: <8vs132+kq3n@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 795 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4866 --- In lojban@egroups.com, "Jorge Llambias" wrote: > > la aulun cusku di'e > > >x1 cu banli le ka jamna -> balkamjamna -> baljamna -> "grand in warring" > >("gloriously warring") > > (At the risk of being chastised for invoking non-existing > lujvo making rules...) > > I just can't see {banli le ka jamna} giving {balkamjamna}. > It has to be {kamjamba'i} or simply {jamba'i}. > > That is not to say that {baljamna} is not a valid lujvo, > but its expansion (to me) would be something like > {banli je jamna}, not {banli le ka jamna}. I can feel with you (and I also like your version better), but my point was that {baljamna} has to do with "to war", hence somewhat having the meaning of "grand in warring" rather than "great war". co'o mi'e .aulun.