Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: APE: Lojban haiku

[manti <wakkawalross@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:35:59 AM UTC-6, tsani wrote:
> .i la manti cu cusku di'e
> > Also; another haiku.
> >
> > lo pa karce cu
> > se na'e frili citka
> > lo mlatu vau .ia
>
> {se} only modifies the first thing on the right that constitutes a
> valid selbri, which would be {na'e frili}. Thus, your haiku
> accidentally means "Cars eat cats uneasily, I believe," which is even
> funnier :) To fix this, you'd need to move the {se} directly before
> {citka}. If meter weren't important, you could use a {ke} bracket like
> this to make {se} scope over the whole tanru: {se ke na'e frili
> citka}.
>
> .i mi'e la tsani mu'o

mi lo nu ciska dei cu bilga lo su'u cilre fi la .lojban.
.i ki'e la tsani ku ciksi lo selvla be zo se
.i mi na'e djuno zo'e zo se

What I attempted to say:

I felt as though I should write this is Lojban for practice.
Thank you Tsani for pointing out the way se works.
I had no idea it worked like that.

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