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[lojban-beginners] Re: Some translations



On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:08:26AM -0600, ?lvaro Vallejo wrote:
> > coi rodo
> >
> > mi nitcu cu fanva ti glivla la lojban
> > (I need to translate into Lojban the following words, is the utterance in
> > Lojban right?)
>
> Sorry, but not even close.  Other people have worked on the grammar. I
> would like to point out that nitcu is a moderately in-appropriate word
> in this case, unless you're going to fill the x3.  djica seems better.


I don't understand why the x3 of nitcu would be apriori more critical than
any other place of any other brivla. However, in this case, its value is
clear: his book.




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