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[lojban-beginners] Re: "people disappear all the time"
de'i li 04 pi'e 12 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Steven Lytle .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> I'm trying to translate (not necessarily to Lojban, but Lojban would be
> helpful) the sentence "People disappear all the time", but to make sure it
> means what I want, I've been trying to paraphrase it. The paraphrase comes
> out something like: "There are many and frequent occurrences of people
> disappearing". I also want to capture the fact that it's one disappearance
> per person.
> Any suggestions?
.skamyxatra
"{lonu lo prenu cu canci cu cafne}," possibly with "{so'iroi}" or similar
before "{cafne}," is the best I can come up with. I don't think it's
incompatible with different people disappearing on different occasions, but I
don't know how to make such an aspect explicit.
mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
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