On 5/9/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:30:05PM -0400, Adam COOPER wrote:
[snip]
> { da'i nai ko'a pu'o zukte so'i da poi krinu lo nu lo li'i jmive
> cu vamji lo nu gunka lo zu'o jmive }
In fact, it was in anticipation of doing many things that are
reasons for living being an amount of value equivalent to the event
of working on the activity of living.
You lost me after krinu.
s/nu gunka/ni gunka
{ da'i nai } In fact
{ ko'a pu'o zukte so'i da } she had yet to do many things
{ poi krinu lo nu } which were reasons that [the event of]
{ lo li'i jmive } the experience of living
{ cu vamji } was equivalent in value to
{ lo ni gunka lo zu'o jmive } the amount of work done on the activity of living
That's what I meant to say.
It kind of depends on how much you want to keep the form of the
original. One purely Lojbanic option is:
da'i nai ko'a pu'o lifri lo xamgu
I'm definitely getting bitten by the purple prose of the era (1923), & was eager to try to capture the "life worth living" concept. But the more Lojbanic the better, to be sure. ki'e sai robin .i mu'o mi'e .adam.