[lojban-beginners] Re: APE (Audience Participation Exercise): Lojbanic words of wisdom

[ianek <janek37@gmail.com>]

On 28 Gru, 22:56, Pierre Abbat <p...@bezitopo.org> wrote:
> On Friday, December 28, 2012 12:51:11 ianek wrote:
> > There's one more popular Polish proverb about horses:
>
> > lo xirma ku tuple lo vo mei i ku'i xy ji'a tapflifa'u
> > "Koń ma cztery nogi i też się potknie", 'a horse has four legs and it
> > trips, too', English equivalent is "Even Jove nods".
>
> That should be "lo xirma ku se tuple lo vo mei...".

Of course. Or I could make up a lujvo {vontu'e}: "x1 is four-legged/
has four legs", so I can say {lo mi vontu'e pendo} and {lo xirma ku
vontu'e}. (Purists could say it should be {vonseltu'e} or something,
but I'm not one, {vontu'e} seems clear enough).

mu'o mi'e ianek

>
> Pierre
> --
> li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
> li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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