[lojban-beginners] Re: Simple Lojban email conversation, anyone interested in taking part ?

[Yann Le Du <yann.ledu@noos.fr>]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Yann Le Du wrote:
> > Let's try to have a nice simple bilingual conversation, i.e. we
> > give the lojban and (litteral) english versions of everything we
> > say, which we'll try to keep short, so as not to get discouraged.
>
> I immediately thought of http://www.gwaihir.org/fun/school.english
>
> :-)

.u'isai

I've started a cleaned transcript of the conversation there : 
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/YannLeDu/lojban_conversation.html

I hope many will contribute !

> .uu xu do ponse lo karce
>
> [sympathy] Do you have a car?
>
> go'i .i ku'i mi nelci lo nu se sorprekarce kei mu'i lo nu mi kakne
> lo nu tcidu
>
> Yes, but I like being a bus passenger because I can read.
>
>
> I assume that the x2 of sorprekarce, which I am being lazy and not
> putting in jbovlaste, would be the same as the x2 of karce.

I used http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php and it says "car engine". So 
how can we write "bus passenger" ?

--
mu'o mi'e .ian.xek.