[lojban-beginners] Re: metaphorical poor

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Alexandre
Dezotti<dezotti.alexandre@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i cannot find the translation for the metaphorical 'poor', ie in the
> sense used in "poor of us!".
> This of course doesn't mean "we are not rich", but rather something
> which is a subtile mixture of unluckyness (not mandatorily), sadness,
> humility(sometimes), and other things.

"se kecti"

Also, "pindi" is not necessarily about material wealth, so you could
say for example "pindi lo ka zabna se funca".

As an exclamation ("poor thing!"), "uu" will work. For the particular
case of the exclamation "poor of us!" you could use "uu se'i".

> You might wonder why i need this...
> Well, i'm trying to learn by translating things. And so, i'm wondering
> if there is a place where people work together in translating (somehow
> classical) texts, one could show the translation and people say if one
> should change things etc.

If it's not too long, you can probably send it to this list and ask
for comments.

mu'o mi'e xorxes