[lojban-beginners] Re: The Prophet

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 8/6/07, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Again a sentence from The Prophet:
>
> .i so'i se djedi nu mi lo cortu gi'e lemi ka sepli cu nicte go'i gi'e
> ma kakne cliva le ko'a cortu .e le ko'a ka sepli secau lo xenru
>
> (Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long
> were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his
> aloneness without regret?)

Note that the contrast of days and nights calls for {donri}/{nicte},
not {djedi}. I suggest something like:

.i clani fa lo donri pe lo nuncortu zi'e poi mi renvi fi'o sruri lo ko'a bitmu
.ije clani fa lo nicte pe lo nunynonkansa .i ma pau nai kakne lo nu
cliva lo vo'a nuncortu .e lo vo'a nunynonkansa gi'e nai xenru

> Where is the "I have spent within its walls"?

{fi'o sruri lo ko'a bitmu} would seem to work (assuming {ko'a} for whatever
"its" refers to.)

{se ru'u} would be nice for {fi'o sruri}, but it is currently not grammatical.

mu'o mi'e xorxes