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Re: [lojban-beginners] Become a Lojbanist!

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 02:10:26AM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> So, I have a Google alert for anything that has the word Lojban. Today, it
> spouted a forum message about Lojban posted in- of all things- a forum for
> people that write programs for TI graphing calculators: Cemetech | Forum |
> General Open Topic | *Lojban*!
> [Topic]<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D170667&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAEoATAAOABA6bH49gRIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=zltLG7YXDHE&usg=AFQjCNGM-6akc_egPr3UnT24ipvBBpnQbw>
> 
> So, me being me, I had to reply. Part of my reply was this:
> 
> ko binxo.e'o lo cmima be lo jbopre
> 
> I really like this, especially since it's one of the first things
> I wrote in Lojban - and by that I mean that I didn't translate it,
> even in my head, I actually /thought it out in Lojban/ and wrote
> it down. 

\o/

> Also, I wanted to try this on for size:
> 
> It doesn't matter if you make mistakes. What matters is if you learn from
> them.
>
> lonu srera na vajni .i se vajni lonu cilre fo lonu srera
> 
> Any thoughts, suggestions, etc.? I'd like to know if anyone else thinks the
> above could be improved, keeping in mind I'm not going for an exact
> translation- it's the expression, not the words, that I care about.

It's fine, although I might have arranged it differently for
stylistic reasons; {vajni fa} perhaps.

-Robin

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