[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban stuff

[Sunnan <sunnan@handgranat.org>]

la cuncuxnas. wrote:

> coi rodo
>
> Still working on Just So Stories on and off.  I finished Lojban for 
> Beginners, which tipped me off to some nice grammatical cleanups (like 
> using the FA cmavo to pull the continuing dialogue trick (i.e. "But," 
> he said, "it's too late.")), which in turn got me revising what I 
> already had.  Very near the beginning of The Beginning of the 
> Armadillos, there's a bit about a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog who eats 
> "shelly snails and things."  I used {lo calku cakcurnu} for "shelly 
> snails," but the "and things" really threw me for a loop.  Right now 
> I've got {.e lo simsa} stuck in there.  Is there a generic Lojban word 
> for things?  Stuff?  Anything of that nature?


While the "and things" are logically superfluous, {ri citka lo calku 
cakcurnu .e zo'e} comes to mind.