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Subject: [lojban] Re: Founders: {se ma'i} and {te ma'i}
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:06:29PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2004 14:35, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Here's the best I've come up with for examples:
> >
> > ''mi tadni lo te bilma se ma'i lo selci''
> >
> > "I study disease with standardized observation of cells."
> >
> > ''mi tadni lo te bilma te ma'i tu'a lo kumfa co jinsa be so'a da''
> >
> > "I study diseases with observation rules relating to a room clean of
> > almost all contaminants."
> >
> > Are these good enough?  Can you guys think of anything better?
> 
> I am lost trying to make sense of these. How about {la
> tcomolunmas. 

The what?

> galrai be tema'i lenu le xamsi cu pinta be'o cmana}?

You want loldi, not pinta.

What about se ma'i?

-RObin

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