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[lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] mabla notci



I'm a beginner and having a hard time making sense of this.

ki'u ma	lei mabla		te vecnu		cu ba'e ca		vi	      te notci
why		derogatory	(3rd) buyer	/now/		here      (3rd) message author

This seems to translate to:
why sold to butt-holes now a message authored by here

The reference materials say that TE swaps the first and third places, so:

vecnu
x1 sells x2 to x3 for amount x4

te vecnu
x3 is sold x2 by x1 for amount x4

from above:
lei mabla is sold cu ba'e ca by vi for amount te notci
butt-holes are sold now by here for amount the message author

Can someone help me parse this, please?

Thanks,
  JJ



On Tuesday, Sep 28, 2004, at 08:13 US/Eastern, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:34:31AM +1200, mikevdg@gulik.co.nz wrote:
Quoting doug <kyrzar@hotmail.com>:

ki'u ma lei mabla te vecnu cu ba'eca vi te notci

(because of reason) (what) (the mass described) (****ing!!) (3rd-person-sell)
(very-during) (here) (3rd-person message).

"Why are the sellers *now* here writing?"

Using "lei" to gloss English plurals is somewhat bad usage, but
unfortunately common.

Is he complaining about the spam?

It seems likely.

-Robin

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