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Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban attempt: please correct

Thanks all,

I like these because they are shorter and memorable:
  • ki'a pei
  • xu smudra
Are these also valid?
  • xu do jimpe
  • xu do jimpe di'u
  • mi'e lo cilre fi la.lojban.
  • xu di'u smudra

With {ma xe fanva zoi gy. <English> .gy lo jbobau} couldn't one technically correctly respond with text in another language that is also deemed logical?
Could I just say {ma xe fanva zoi gy. <English> .gy} and the language would be clear from context?
From: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com <lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com> on behalf of selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 August 2015 5:59 AM
To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban attempt: please correct
 
la'o me. Timothy Lawrence .me cusku di'e:
> A few more questions:
>
> - How does one say "Does that make any sense?" in Lojban? - How does
> one say "How does one say (English) in Lojban?" in Lojban?

Yet again there are many options...

{xu smudra} -- "Is [it] semantically correct?"

{xu do te smuni di'u lo cizra} -- "Do you understand the previous
utterance as having a strange meaning?"


And for the second one you can use either of the following:

{ma xe fanva zoi gy. <English> .gy lo jbobau} -- "What's the translation
result of <English> into Lojban?"

{ma noi lojbo cu smudu'i zoi gy. <English> .gy [gi'e lojbo]} -- "What
Lojban _expression_ has the same meaning as <English>?"

I like the second one because it doesn't involve an agent (fanva1). The
first one is the old-school way.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o


From: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com <lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 August 2015 6:13 AM
To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban attempt: please correct
 


And for the second one you can use either of the following:

{ma xe fanva zoi gy. <English> .gy lo jbobau} -- "What's the translation result of <English> into Lojban?"

{ma noi lojbo cu smudu'i zoi gy. <English> .gy [gi'e lojbo]} -- "What Lojban _expression_ has the same meaning as <English>?"

I like the second one because it doesn't involve an agent (fanva1). The first one is the old-school way

  (And since I am old school, that's the one I suggested ;-) 
                                                       --gejyspa
 




From: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com <lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 August 2015 5:45 AM
To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban attempt: please correct
 


On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Timothy Lawrence <timothy.lawrence@connect.qut.edu.au> wrote:
   
A few more questions:

- How does one say "Does that make any sense?" in Lojban?

   Well, "xu di'u se smuni lo seldji be mi" means "does that last utterance mean what I wanted"?  Or you could try "ki'a pei" ("are you confused by what I said?") 


- How does one say "How does one say (English) in Lojban?" in Lojban?

ma xe fanva zoi gy (put English here) gy la lojban ("what is a translation of ____ in lojban?")
 
       --gejyspa


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