[lojban-beginners] Re: Translation effort...

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- c1tk@c1tk.cjb.net wrote:
> > [{na'e bo da} instead of {na'e da}.]
> 
> Thanks, however I still do not understand why a {bo} is needed here. 

This is just a quirk of the grammar. {na'e <sumti>} is not allowed.
I think it has to do with the parser's LALR(1) capability, but I can't
really explain how that works.

> 		And I define Evil as the enjoyment I get from watching
> 		thousands of innocents squirm in terror as I destroy the
> 		very underpinnings of everything they believe and hold dear
> 		in my quest to command supreme domination over all life.
> 
> 	ije mi te smuni le ka palci le mi se pluka poi mi zgana le nu so'i
> 	na zekri prenu cu terpa na cando ku'o fi'o temci le nu ge mi zalvi
> 	ro ra se krici jicmu gi mi dirba gunka fi le nu mi mulno jitro ro
> 	jmive

{le ka placi} -> {le ka palci kei}, otherwise it will absorb the next 
sumti.

You seem to have translated something like "(I destroy the very 
underpinnings of everything they believe) and (hold dear in my quest 
to command supreme domination over all life)", but I think the correct 
parse of that "and" is "everything ((they believe) and (hold dear))",
isn't it?
 
> 		EVIL IS NOT A PHILOSOPHY. IT IS NEITHER A MEANS NOR AN END.
> 		IT IS AN ATTITUDE AND A LIFESTYLE.
> 
> 	i le ka palci cu se krici ciste i ri genai tadji ginai jalge i ri ge
> 	menli tarti gi jmive morna

{cu _na_ se krici ciste}. I don't think {jalge} is "end" in this sense. 
Maybe: {ri genai se zukte ginai te zukte}. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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