[lojban-beginners] Re: vreta

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see.  So like most things lojban, you can't count on the "approximate
> english equivalent" to be at all regular or normal.  eg. "___ing = nu ____"
> is not always (or even usually) a good generalization.

"nu ___" -> "___-ing" works reasonably well.

In the other direction you have two options:

"___-ing" -> "nu ___"
"___-ing" -> "ca'o ___ "

(Sometimes "-ing" can be the result of an action rather than the
action, as in "a building", "a drawing", and Lojban doesn't have an
obvious conversion for that.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes