[lojban-beginners] Re: fa fe fi se te...

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

  kelci'e (or more canonically, (that is, appearing in the gismu list) ci'erkei) is a game (from (se) kelci+ciste -> play(ed with) system).  The other part switches the orders around so that it would be "x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 sevetevexeseteve  broda" would be the same as "x3 x5 x1 x4 x2 broda".  The sentence basically translates to "a shell is a game component" (playing off Brett's mention of a "shell game")
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                 --gejyspa

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

what is this game?  What on earth does that sentence translate to.... even if the seveteve.... was a simple se I wouldn't really know how to translate that kelci'e

- Luke Bergen

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Brett Williams <mungojelly@gmail.com> wrote:

Tricks like that (or the sevetevexeseteve shell game for instance) can
be fun puzzles but should be kept away from practical communication.

 lo calku  cu sevetevexeseteve kelci'e