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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: ti, ta, tu for people?



Am Donnerstag, 20.02.03 um 11:10 Uhr schrieb Philip Newton:

On 20 Feb 2003 at 4:20, Jan Pilgenroeder wrote:

Am Mittwoch, 19.02.03 um 12:26 Uhr schrieb Philip Newton:

You probably want to get an answer like {leka cumki daspo nalseltro
selfa'u le jimca}.
I don't understand that sentence. What is it supposed to mean?
It's not a complete sentence. It's just an answer to your ma-question.
And it's mostly just one long tanru. The utterance says:

"the property of possibly destroying type-of uncontrolled (endpoint of
falling movement) of the branch"
Which is about as enigmatic as the original.

I continue to not understand. *puzzled*
If you don't cut the branches, they may fall uncontrolled (i.e. you can't control where they will hit). {nalseltro selfa'u le farlu} means "uncontrolled point of impact of the falling object". It is uncontrolled in a way that allows it to be potentially destructive. So you can say:

.i leka cumki daspo nalseltro selfa'u le jimca cu mukti lenu ta katna le jimca


Bye,
Jan.

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