[lojban-beginners] Re: Class--and non-gismu vocab in general

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting; I'm seeing a bit more merit to this when it's presented
> this way. It seemed odd before, but it makes some sense now. To take
> this to its logical conclusion, though, how would you say "What
> classes are you taking this semester?"

I suppose something like:

   do se ctuca fo ma ca lo ca kultei

> I'm not sure it'd be the same
> word, and if it were I think you'd be using a little flexibility in
> translation (a direct gloss might be something like "what teaching
> events do you repeatedly go to this semester?") And I don't think it
> can be as simple as {do tadni ma} with any combination of
> tenses/aspects either. Even if it were, then you run into "what's your
> major?" as a problem, which to me is closer to {do tadni ma} (at least
> based on the definition; it's not like I've really seen it in use).

"What's your major?" could be:

  ma ralju lo ve ctuca be do

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