From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sun Oct 14 13:34:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 14 Oct 2001 20:34:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 37558 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2001 20:34:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Oct 2001 20:34:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta06-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.46) by mta3 with SMTP; 14 Oct 2001 20:34:45 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.151]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20011014203438.BYCQ268.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:34:38 +0100 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: translation challenge: "If today is Monday..." Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:33:58 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <9q972g+ng9e@eGroups.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11569 tinkit: > --- In lojban@y..., "And Rosta" wrote: > > Translate into Lojban: > > > > 1. If today is Monday, then tomorrow is Tuesday. > > ti'u lo djedi poi pa moi lo'i jeftu ku'o le balvi lamji djedi cu [dunli] > lo djedi poi re moi lo'i jetfu "There is a monday, x, and a tuesday, y, such that at time x, each of certain next days is equal, in some property, to y" ... not that great as a translation... Note that's it's fairly easy to say "Every monday is immediately followed by a tuesday", or suchlike. I'm asking for a reasonably faithful rendition of the original, though. --And.