[lojban-beginners] Re: skina fanva

[ianek <janek37@gmail.com>]

On 2 Mar, 21:19, iesk <pa....@gmx.de> wrote:
> coi lojbo
>
> I hope one way (for me) to learn Lojban is to try and use it. So, for
> my personal amusement, I tried to translate this clip (le te skina ku
> pendo):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmW92vwNRWw(There are
> subtitles in English, among others.) The clip is quite nice. :)
>
> This is what I came up with (quite longwinded in comparison to the
> Esperanto original, btw):
>
> ---
> lo dilnu zo'u ca'o lo na'arki'o loi remna cu jmive bu'u lo dy. ctino
> noi ze'epu nalckape
>
> .i ku'i lo vindu gundi .a ke'unai lo nu ciplanli be bu'u lo mipri
> skegunku'a be lo fenki cu rinka lo nu morsi dilnu gunta
>
> ni'o fi'o ralju xe draci la roberton. kamarelen. ko lifri tu'a la
> roberton. kamarelen. .e le nonbandu tcadu .e le fenki skepre
>
> .i je go'i lo nu morsi dilnu gunta
> ---
>
> So, I guess there are several problems. First of all, I’m not sure
> about the way I rendered the title. I have, of course, no idea about
> Lojbanistani conventions for film titles, and I don’t know if this is
> elegant.
>
> Furthermore, the original has a strange causal (is it?) sentence: ~
> "Poisonous industry, experiments […] of a madman lead to blabla." The
> industry does not seem to have much to do with the experiments, but in
> Lojban I suspect you can’t just enumerate without specifying the
> relation between those two causes. ".a ke'unai" is probably rubbish,
> though.
>
> Does the "fi'o" construction make sense?
>
> Oh, and I made up "na'arki'o" for "millennia" and "skegunku'a" for
> "laboratory"; not sure about those, neither.
>
> I’d be glad to here comments and corrections. a'u ki'e
>
> (ta'o zoi gy subtitle gy se fanva fu ma)

pe'i zo skutcita

mu'o mi'e ianek

>
> mu'o mi'e iesk

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