Re: [lojban-beginners] Translating a sentence of "The Scientific Ape"

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

On Sunday 10 June 2012 17:37:00 Álvaro Vallejo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In The Scientific Ape, the sentence "And therefore we shall take babies,
> concluded the doctor" is translated as
> ".i lu ja'o ma'a ba kavbu lo cifnu li'u".
>
> I would translate it as "".i lu ja'o ma'a ba kavbu lo cifnu sei le prije
> cusku li'u"
>
> Is this last an improvement over the original translation?

You need "cu" or "ku" after "le prije". I suggest "famsku"; maybe someone has 
a better suggestion. I'd avoid "sei" when the who-says phrase is at the end 
and say "...li'u se famsku le prije".

Pierre
-- 
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