Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MzVTe-0003pK-Lx for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:07:15 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MzVTW-0003oE-4T for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:07:13 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20091018130659303.YYTF16243@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:06:59 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3255233B8 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:06:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Yoda quote Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:06:48 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <7f1d42860910172251h5f5fb830t1c45a8839c9832a3@mail.gmail.com> <20091018055957.GC17978@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20091018055957.GC17978@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910180906.52373.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2454 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 526 On Sunday 18 October 2009 01:59:57 Robin Lee Powell wrote: > do gasnu jo nai troci > > however, works just fine, and is quite a slick translation. :) (I'd > use ko, though; also snada, but that's stylistic). > > If I wanted to translate it literalistically (hint: don't ever do > that), I'd do "ko snada .i jo nai ko na snada .i lo nu troci cu na > cumki". Or perhaps "zasti" at the end. I don't think "do gasnu jonai troci" is right. How about "snada jo snada .i troci na'i"? Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa