[lojban-beginners] Re: Simple Lojban email conversation, anyone interested in taking part ?

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

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Yann Le Du wrote:
> Let's try to have a nice simple bilingual conversation, i.e. we
> give the lojban and (litteral) english versions of everything we
> say, which we'll try to keep short, so as not to get discouraged. 

I immediately thought of http://www.gwaihir.org/fun/school.english

:-)

> .a'u do mo
> 
> [interest] What about you ?
> 
> .ui mi bazi cliva le mi briju .i .ei baziku mi ze'a denpa .oi vi
> lo sorprekarcytcana
> 
> [happy] I shall soon leave the office of mine. [obliged] Soon
> afterwards I  wait a while [complaint] at the the
> many-person-car-station (i.e. bus station).

.uu xu do ponse lo karce

[sympathy] Do you have a car?

go'i .i ku'i mi nelci lo nu se sorprekarce kei mu'i lo nu mi kakne
lo nu tcidu

Yes, but I like being a bus passenger because I can read.


I assume that the x2 of sorprekarce, which I am being lazy and not
putting in jbovlaste, would be the same as the x2 of karce.

-Robin

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