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[lojban-beginners] Re: More Lojban word queries
Ok, I more-or-less get "tu'a" and "la'e" now, but "sei" is still eluding
me. Surely the example you just gave would be translated as (roughly)
"zo .oinai cu se cusku la meiris."?
mu'o
Chris.
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> Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell
> Sent: 26 August 2004 22:46
> To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: More Lojban word queries
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:39:11PM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote:
> > coi ro do
> >
> > I started running through Robin's SuperMemo lojban
> flashcards today.
> > In my first swathe, there were three word that I hadn't
> heard of, and
> > didn't even understand the definition of once SuperMemo
> told me what
> > it was.
>
> Yeah, the definitions stink. We're working on that.
>
> > So, in layman's terms, what do "tu'a", "sei" and "la'e"
> mean, and how
> > are they used?
>
> Ouch.
>
> "tu'a le broda" ~= "le su'u le broda cu co'e". In other
> words, "tu'a <sumti>" basically means "something to do with <sumti>".
>
> It's used for the Lojban equivalent of "Try the door", where
> what you really mean is "Try to accomplish the event of
> opening the door". "Try the door" in Lojban is "troci tu'a le vorme".
>
> "sei" introduces a meta-linguistic bridi. I'm not sure what
> else to say about it. It's used for things like "(said
> Mary)" in "That was lovely (said Mary)".
>
> "la'e <sumti>" means "the thing refered to by <sumti>".
> "di'u", for example, refers to the previous utterance
> (usually just the previous sentence), but if someone says
> "Bob is visiting", and you're happy about that, you can't say
> "mi gleki di'u", because that means that you are literally
> happy about the preceding sentence as a sentence (well
> phrased or something), so you say "mi gleki la'e di'u".
>
> -Robin
>
>