Re: [lojban-beginners] Translation exercise - Titan atmosphere life ingredients

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> Use a construction with {zi'o} and perhaps with {be}?

That works from a purely formal perspective, if you are only concerned
with explicit meaning, but if you factor in the connotations I don't
think it works as a neutral form very well. I don't think the
craetionist would be too happy with "lo terzba be fi zi'o". (How dare
you obliterate His place like that!) "zi'o" calls attention to the
very place you least want the attention to go to, so it never really
quite works as intended.

How about "krapau": x1 is an original/source element of x2"? Makes me
think of cars and such, though.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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