[lojban-beginners] Re: Timo answers Yitziks first questions :)

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Timo Paulssen
> <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
>> I.Penzev wrote:

>
>>> - 'There is a book on the table';
>>
>> {lo cukta cu cpana lo jubme}
>
> For this one I would prefer Pierre's {da cukta ga'u le jubme}. I feel
> the focus isn't on the event of "a book being on the surface of the
> table" but rather of "something being a book on the table". {da cukta
> ga'u le jubme} has also fewer brivla than {lo cukta cu cpana lo
> jubme}, which I believe gives rise to more readability.

  And I would go even another step -- Any construction of "There
is..." in English, "Hace/hay" in  Spanish, etc.  is a lojban
observative.  I would have just said "cukta bu'u le jubme"

            --gejyspa