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[lojban-beginners] Re: Translate phrase from the Portal song



On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM, tijlan<jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> "every time you make a mistake" can be "ro roi lo nu do srera".

I prefer "ca ro nu do srera" for "every time you make a mistake".

The sumti after number-roi for me indicates the interval in which
something happens n times, as in: "ci roi lo cabjeftu", "three times
this week".


> There is an experimental gismu I created with scoreGismu (a Pearl
> program) for "cake" sometime ago:
> Âdarta (etymology: èç -> dangao, àààà -> rot, cake -> keik, pastel ->
> pastel, ÑÐÑÑ -> tort, ÙØÙØ -> karka)

"pastel" is more like English "pie", "cake" would be "torta" in
Spanish. Probably makes no difference to the result though.

mu'o mi'e xorxes