[lojban-beginners] Re: âThere is the view from hereâ question

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 25 September 2009 10:40:44 Dino Alfier wrote:
> Can one write âva jvinu fe viâ to mean âThere is the view from hereâ? I
> mean, is it grammatically correct? (Never mind if it sounds odd - it sounds
> odd in English too.) If itâs not correct, how would one write it?

"va jvinu fe vi" is ungrammatical, but "ta jvinu fe ti" and "va jvinu fe ti" 
are grammatical. What you mean, I'm not sure. "jvinu tu ti" makes sense; it 
means "is the view of that from here". ("Here", as a pronoun, is translated 
by "ti", not "vi", which is a tense marker.) I'm not sure where a view is 
said to be located.

If your native language is na'ebo lo glico and you're having trouble wording 
it in English, please state it in your language. There are several of us who 
speak other languages, including French, Spanish, Hebrew, and Welsh.

Pierre