[lojban-beginners] Re: Questions (literally)

[jkominek@miranda.org]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:52:02AM -0700, Scott wrote:
> 3)  What do you do for a living?
> 	.i do gunka ma

While that could be interpreted the way you want, I think it is more
likely to be read as "what are you working on?" You probably want "ma
jibri do"

> 4)  Do you have any pets?
> 	.i xu do ponse le satre danlu
> There is no word for "pet" in my lojban dictionary (the one I generated at 
> jbovlaste), so I had to make this one up.

You might consider "prami danlu" instead. Certainly one legally ponse's
pets, so it is good enough.

> Turning it into lujvo is more than I want to bite off at the moment,
> so I stuck with tanru.

There is no particular need to turn it into a luvjo, anyways. Besides,
most people making lujvo shouldn't be doing so. It is a subtle process.

> 6)  Do you have any children?
> 	i. xu do ponse le verba

xu do rirni
or
xu panzi do

> 8)  What is your favorite food?
> 	.i do zanfri ma cidja

Not grammatical. You've got two selbri. I'd go with something like "ma
poi do zanfri cu cidja"

> 9)  Ginger or MaryAnn?
> 	.i xu do nelci la .djendjr .onai la .meri,an.
> It's ungrammatical in English, and only readily understandable to an older 
> portion of American males anyway.  But I thought I'd throw it in there.  At 
> least I attempted to make it grammatical in lojban.

la djendjr ji la meri,an

This allows for the best answer of ".e". And captures the vagueness.

> 10)  What color is your cereal bowl?
> 	.i le cerni sanmi palta cu skari ma
> My dictionary contains no word for cereal or for bowl.  So I settled for a 
> "morning meal plate" tanru, which really doesn't convey what I wanted it to 
> (especially since "plate" is entirely the wrong word).

ma se skari lo do cerni gurni tansi

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>