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Re: [lojban-beginners] Beauty vs Beautiful



On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:58:32AM -0400, .arpis. wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:19 AM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How does one say "she is beautiful" as opposed to "she is beauty
> > [incarnate]"? Leave the "incarnate" out, I just put that there to clarify
> Ignoring the fact that the latter is near-universally false, {ta melbi} vs
> {ta ka melbi}, or {ta ka ce'u melbi} if you want to be more precise.

There's also {ta si'o melbi} which pe'i fits better in this case.
There are more abstractors than nu/du'u and ka .u'icu'i

I would still prefer {ta melbi traji}/{ta melrai} which is less poetic,
but more easy to comprehend..


mu'o

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