[lojban-beginners] Re: feedback please

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

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, peter hering <pjhering@gmail.com> wrote:
>i za'a ry zmadu fi le ka kavbu be lo sfani

  While technically not wrong, since zmadu is a comparison, it's hard
to say what you are comparing R to.  Probably you would want to use
"mutce fe lo ka kavbu be lo sfani" (or traji if you are REALLY
satisfied....)

timo:
>> .i se fulta le cpina litki lo ba'e so'i morsi cinki

> This seems to mean, that the liquid floats on the dead flies. While this could
> be a neat stylistic device (so many dead flies, that the liquid itself was
> swimming in fly corpses), it seems like that wasn't intended. The cause for this
> is, that if you put no sumti before the selbri, the first sumti after it is
> assigned into the x2 slot, which is the x1 slot of fulta.

   Actually it's not clear what function the dead insects fill, since
they would be in the non-existent x3 of "fulta", not the X1.  Anyway,
all that's needed here is to add "fa" before "le cpina..."

    --gejyspa