[lojban-beginners] Re: Story time

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:15:28AM -0500, Andrew Archibald wrote:
> In an effort to learn a little more about tense and narrative, I wrote
> a short paragraph about local events.  If someone would be so kind as
> to comment on it, that would be great.

Very cool, thanks.

> la bardivuar. vi le mi zdani cu barja

Bardivuuar is a bar near my house.

> .i pu za ki ku le vorme pe by. ze'u ba ganlo ki'u lo nu catra

A while ago, its door was closed because of a killing.

> .i lo pulji cu klama by. .ije ku'i noda .ianai viska node .ianai

The police came, but nobody saw anything (bullshit!)[1].

> .i kiku la montreal. snura tcadu 

Usually[2], Montreal is safe.

> .ije ku'i my. se nabmi lo relxilma'e zekri girzu

However, Montreal has a problem with a motorcycle[3] gange.

-Robin

[1]: I'm pretty sure xorxes is right on this, but I'm going for what I
think you meant.
[2]: This doesn't really mean 'usually', it means 'at a time and place
unspecified'.  Did you perhaps want so'eroi?
[3]: You probably want 'minji' or 'matra' in there; the default reading
is 'bicycle gang'.  :-)

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