[lojban-beginners] Re: "people disappear all the time"

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Steven Lytle <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to translate (not necessarily to Lojban, but Lojban would be
> helpful) the sentence "People disappear all the time",

ro roi ku lo prenu cu canci

(Of course you probably don't mean literally all the time, but
hyperbole is as possible in Lojban as in English.)

> 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".

lo nu lo prenu cu canci cu rapli li so'i gi'e cafne

>I also want to capture the fact that it's one disappearance
> per person.

Then you could add:

.i no prenu cu za'u pa roi canci

Or equivalently:

.i ro prenu cu su'e pa roi canci

mu'o mi'e xorxes