From xod@thestonecutters.net Thu Jul 10 09:22:05 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 33922 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 16:21:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Jul 2003 16:21:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 16:21:57 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19aeBA-0003Bl-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:21:56 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19aeAT-00038d-00; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:21:13 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.111.194.10] (helo=granite.thestonecutters.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19aeAA-00033c-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:20:54 -0700 Received: from granite.thestonecutters.net (localhost.thestonecutters.net [127.0.0.1]) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6AGGj2C075144 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:16:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h6AGGjPx075141 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:16:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) X-Authentication-Warning: granite.thestonecutters.net: xod owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:16:45 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "Game", "Player" In-Reply-To: <1057840910.6715.7.camel@ludvig.safelogic.se> Message-ID: <20030710121621.J72892-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 5845 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Invent Yourself Reply-To: xod@thestonecutters.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=110189215 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20326 On 10 Jul 2003, Martin [ISO-8859-1] Norbäck wrote: > tor 2003-07-10 klockan 06.46 skrev Eric Sumner: > > I am trying to translate the Monopoly rules and other pieces into lojban, and I > > have come up with a slight problem. The tanru that I am using for a game is > > {tolvajni terjivna}, which works just fine until I want to talk about someone > > who plays the game. > > I don't know if translating the Monopoly® rules will violate any > copyrights, as it's a quite old game, but if you want to translate > another game, you can have a go at Nomic :) > > http://www.lojban.org/wiki/index.php/NomicRules > > I've only done the first rule, and yes, I used "le kelci" for "player". > selkelci for game is not far fetched. tolvajni terjivna seems wrong, > Monopoly could be vajni for some people (I know there have been real > contests using Monopoly) The other problem with "tolvajni" is that you might have preferred "xalbo". -- "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." -- Cheney, 26 Aug 02