Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: ma xe fanva zoi gy Countless stars were twinkling in the sky gy

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:26:33 ianek wrote:
> I'd try to translate it as {ci'i tarci pu carmi bu'u lo tsani}, but I
> may be very wrong. There's no simple word for twinkle, flicker or
> blink.

I'd say {kliniota} for "blink", but that probably wouldn't be understood by a 
non-French-speaker. A possible word for "twinkle" is {camdesku}.

The number of stars isn't infinite, it's just too many for humans to count. You 
could say {ni'e bacterkancu}, but that's a bit long.

Pierre
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