[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting stories

[Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org>]

mi stidi lu ni'o ni'o ni'o li'u
[I suggest "ni'o ni'o ni'o"]

xu do jinvi
[What do you think?]

-Alan

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:27:55PM -0500, Ian Johnson wrote:
>    In English we have things like "once upon a time" or "one day" that we use
>    conventionally to start stories, especially in fiction. Latin takes this
>    one step further and uses just one word, "olim", which unlike the English
>    version has no tense dependence; it makes sense to use olim in a story
>    about the distant future. Does Lojban have anything like this, either
>    defined this way (like Latin) or conventionally used this way (like
>    English)? I've been hunting for a while and haven't gotten anywhere.
> 
>    mu'omi'e latros.

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Every place a riddle, 
every riddle a poem, 
every poem a spirit,
every spirit a place.