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

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

On 16 January 2013 14:01, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:17:01 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>>       In any case, the original English version is "Stealing is stealing,
>> whether it's five cents or a nickel"  This caused us kids to snicker.  My
>> mother admitted she meant to say "...a dime", but we always liked the
>> as-said version better and used it often.  And we have tried to always live
>> by it and impart to our children the importance of being scrupulous to not
>> take more than they are entitled, even by accident (i.e. undercharged by a
>> merchant, or given too much change from a purchase)
>
> As Lojban doesn't have a short word for "a nickel", how about this?:
>
> lo nu zerle'a cu nu zerle'a .iju decru'u je'i kau dekfepni
>

That top-level je'ikau seems off for more than one reason; why not
just "jo nai" ?
You could argue, however, that logically connected bridi are inside
"implicit abstractions" (cf {kanxe} and {vlina}; there aren't really
any decent selbri counterparts to the O and U functions though). Then
again, I'm not sure how much sense indirect questions make inside
these connective abstractions.

Anyway, I do have something constructive to say with regard to this
thread though :)

.i mi vedli lo li'i no'a
(Or for the non-vedli people: {.i mi morji lo du'u no'a}
"I remember remembering remembering..."

It's only as recursive as you want it to be :)

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

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