[lojban-beginners] Re: suck

[Jan Pilgenroeder <pille@mac.com>]

Am 30.11.2004 um 08:25 Uhr schrieb Robin Lee Powell:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:30:47PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > --- MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> >
> > > Is the following a correct way to translate "The baby sucks its
> > > mother's breast."?
> > >
> > > le cifnu cu sakci le jipno be le tatru be le ra mamta
> >
> > lo cifnu cu sakci lo ladru lo tatru
>
> Babies are not suction.

Yep, seems the definition of sakci mixes up the sucker and the event of 
sucking. "Suction" should probably rather be "nu sakci" or "ka sakci".

Outer space (from the example you gave in a previous mail) is not 
suction either.

Bye,
   Jan.

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