[lojban-beginners] Re: how to say

[Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net>]

Thanks Robin!
>Which con?
Penguicon, a combination SF/Open Source Software convention in Novi, Michigan April 22-24, 2005.
>I suggest something like:
>ko cilre lo tadji be lo nu gunta cusku bau la lojban
Attack-type-of-express has got the right kind of idea.
I had {fi} to indicate x3 topic because my wordlist says {cilre} x2 place has to be {du'u}. Is {lo tadji} in the x2 place in the above?
- epkat

lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:08:44PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
>> I'm making a promotional poster for a Lojban event at a science
>> fiction convention, which I would like to be a bilingual
>> English/Lojban poster. 
>
>Sounds excellent!
>
>Which con?
>
>> I want to say (among other things) "learn how to swear in Lojban."
>
>First you'd have to define "swear".  If you want insult, that's
>easy, but "swear" generally means "use words that would offend the
>average speaker of the language"; there is no such thing in Lojban.
>
>> I tried {ko cilre fi lo zu'o mabla sepi'o ma bau la lojban}. Is
>> {sepi'o ma} the right way to say "how"? 
>
>It's one way, but it's not the right way in this case, IMO.  For one
>thing, you want {ma kau}.  For another, I'd use {ta'i} instead of
>{se pi'o}.
>
>> Do I need to close off the abstraction at the end of the sentence
>> with {kei} to avoid saying that the learning is {sepi'o ma bau la
>> lojban}?
>
>Yes.
>
>I suggest something like:
>
>ko cilre lo tadji be lo nu gunta cusku bau la lojban
>
>-Robin

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