Re: [lojban-beginners] Several beginner's questions

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

On Saturday 17 September 2011 09:09:25 gleki wrote:
> I got several questions when reading the grammar and trying to translate
> something.
> So I marked them with numbers. Hope you'll answer at least on some of them.
>
> 1. How to say "trace, trail" and correspondingly "fingerprint" ?

For "fingerprint" I'd say "degba'a". For "trace" or "trail", maybe "klaba'a".

> 2. What is the word "parcatu" mentioned at
> http://www.lojban.org/texts/translations/drbible/drbible_3.html#papipamoi-p
>agbu ?

I was about to leave, so I gave a quick answer. It means one of the 54 
sections that the Torah is divided into, read one each week, except for a few 
doublings up. (The Hebrew calendar is lunisolar and has some years with 13 
months.) The title of each is taken from the first few words. The ones in 
Lojban, with the Hebrew originals, are:
krasi - bere'shit "in beginning" (also the title of the book
no,ax - noach "Noah" 6:9
ko klama - lekh lkha "go ye" 12:1
jarco - vayyera' "he showed" 18:1
la .sarat. pu nanca - chayey sarah "Lives of Sarah" 23:1
dzecitri - toldot "generations" 25:19
cliva - vayetse' "he left" 28:10
lidne benji - vayishlach "he sent" 32:4
xabju - vayeshev "he dwelt" 37:1
co'u nanca - miqets "at the end of" 41:1
In the webpage, they appear piled up from "no,ax" to "lidne benji", because 
the text between them hasn't been translated. They should be converted to 
USFM heading markup.

> 3. OK, I use "xu" when putting questions. But imagine that I haven't got a
> reply to my question. How to cancel my question and go on speaking ?

I'm not sure without seeing the context, but you can say "xunai".

> 5. How to say "merry-go-round", "Ferris wheel" and "swing" ? I suggest
> "zdipincarcukla", "zdirajycarcukla" and "zdislita'o" respectively.

Those sound good, but a swing seat is sometimes a plastic strap instead of a 
board. How about "zdidadysli"?

Pierre
-- 
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