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[lojban-beginners] Re: web comics translated into Lojban



On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Jorge Llamb� wrote:

On 8/17/05, Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net> wrote:
http://www.nemorathwald.com/pbflojban/pbflojban.htm

"doi patfu .i pe'u ko ba catlu ni'a le mi ckana se ga'a [lo] pacycrida"

{pe'u} is a vocative, so it will absorb the {ko}. You could just say:
{pe'u patfu ko catlu ...}

But {ni'a le mi ckana} would seem to say that the event of looking
will occur under the bed. The father doesn't really need to go under
the bed to look there. I'm not sure about {se ga'a} either. I would
suggest something like:

{pe'u patfu ko cipcta lo cnita be le mi ckana lo ka lo pacycrida cu zvati}

Or shorter: {pe'u patfu ko cipcta le ckana cnita tu'a lo pacycrida}

Where: cipcta = "x1 examines/checks x2 for property x3"

Just because I enjoy playing with these things, how would this work?

{pe'u patfu ko sisku lo ka pacycrida kei le'i cnita be le ckana be fi mi}

Please, father, search among what is under my bed for things with the
property of monsterhood.
--
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
    -- Colonel Adolphus Busch