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Subject: [lojban] Re: Emily Dickinson
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From: And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>
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sanxiyn:
> > se xabju lo flira na mulno
> > se viska lo trina poi ka'e
> > gi le firjulne gi ke'a se vimcu
> > le du noi se mu'i gi ke'a
>
> > ge catlu co bumru gi djica
> > je narcru gi no da co'udji
> > gi'e pu bo ganse lo poi'i da ke'a
> > se xanri je mansa ra'idji
>
> > mi'e and
>
> melbi ku'i ki'a ki'a ki'a
>
> How does that parse?

There are probably errors. Indeed, the first word of line 1 should be=20
"te", not "se".

Most of the contortion is due to trying the reproduce a Lojban=20
version of the original metrical and rhyme scheme. (Replacing=20
iambs and masculine line endings with anapests and feminine line=20
endings, and replacing full rhyme with partial rhyme.) There was=20
no point me just trying to capture the meaning, for you had done=20
a very elegant job there, and, I'm sure, captured Emily's exquisite=20
diction much much much better. (Nice to know there are Emily
fans in Korea and Lojbanistan!)

The only bit of nonprescription Lojban I'm aware of is "poi'i",=20
which is a NU but means "poi", i.e. "lo poi'i ...ke'a .... kei" =3D "da=20
poi .... ke'a ... ku'o".

"se mu'i gi broda gi brode" =3D "broda, in order that brode".

"ka'e gi le firjulne gi ke'a se vimcu" =3D "[if the veil then perhaps the=20
allure] is removed" =3D "if the veil is removed then it could be that the=20
allure is removed".

With line one with "te xabju", "lo trina" is in surface x3, underlying=20
x1, i.e. is the inhabitor.

Apart from these, I think the rest is in pretty ordinary syntax.

--And.