From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu May 28 17:27:39 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9pwh-0002Sf-IR for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:39 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.123]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9pwe-0002Rp-Iz for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:39 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090529002711320.ZUWY11639@cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com> for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 00:27:28 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FE12D10 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:27:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: E Pluribus Unum and question about "lo nu binxo" Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:27:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <5715b9300905281343g25302d95pf8bf4ae281cdbac1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5715b9300905281343g25302d95pf8bf4ae281cdbac1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905282027.03844.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 15611 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thursday 28 May 2009 16:43:15 Luke Bergen wrote: > Does the following sound like a decent translation? > > klama li pa li su'o > > If not, what do you all think would be a good lojban translation? No. It means that something goes to a number, which doesn't make sense, except in some special context. The right translation is something like "lo so'imei cu binxo lo pamei" or "zbasu lo pamei lo so'imei" or "lu'o lo so'imei cu pamei", but the original is bricau. Pierre To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.