From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Mon Apr 02 14:53:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_0_1); 2 Apr 2001 21:53:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 99807 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2001 21:52:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Apr 2001 21:52:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO s1.uklinux.net) (212.1.130.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Apr 2001 22:53:40 -0000 Received: from rrbcurnow.freeuk.com (root@ppp-1-18.cvx4.telinco.net [212.1.148.18]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f32LqWN18795 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:52:33 +0100 Envelope-To: Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 14kCEb-000059-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:51:37 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:51:36 +0100 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] srana le'i sucta cmavo Message-ID: <20010402225136.A159@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Reply-To: Richard Curnow Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i-nntp In-Reply-To: ; from jjllambias@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:07:25PM +0000 Sender: Richard Curnow X-eGroups-From: Richard Curnow From: Richard Curnow X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6383 On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:07:25PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > >& SU'U BRODA for SUCTA LE BRODA? > > As with {si'o}, I don't really know what {su'u} is supposed > to mean. {sucta co nu broda} is again horribly vague. > The only example I remember again falls into an indirect > question: See how they run! > The other usage I remember seeing was a translation of the joke - my dog has no nose - how does he smell? - awful where the 2nd phrase was translated as something like le su'u sumne pe gy. cu mo Perhaps SU'U has a niche in translating ambiguous uses of the English word HOW. I once looked into other ways of translating HOW, along the lines of "what method", but it seemed rather clumsy and verbose. co'o mi'e ritcrd. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow rpc@myself.com Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom http://go.to/richard.curnow/