Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: questions about 'cu'

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

On Sunday, February 19, 2012 13:27:28 Lee Carlson wrote:
> My thanks. I created a farewell, based on my spiritual path's "blessed be,"
> which I render as *iure'e le cevni cu kurji ko* by which I mean "with
> spiritual love I direct you to act in such a way that your perception of
> god (the divine) cares about/for you." Have I accomplished my goal?

I like the Lojban better than the English, which means, I think, that you're 
thinking in Lojban. It's really hard to render the Lojban into any natlang I 
know; the closest I can come offhand is Spanish "te amo y Dios cuídete" (I 
attend a Hispanic church, so much of my thinking about God is in Spanish).

Adding to what Lindar said, the fa'orma'o is, as far as I know, a part of 
speech unique to the Loglanic languages, so you need lots of practice to get 
it right. "cu" has an equivalent in Tok Pisin; attitudinals exist (though not 
the same list) in some language spoken in the NE India/Burma area. Terminators 
are what make it possible to say lots of grammatical constructs unambiguously.

Pierre
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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