[lojban-beginners] Re: Questions (literally)

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 9/11/05, Scott <scottr@synthiotics.com> wrote:
> 7)  What hobbies do you have?
> This one completely stumped me.  My dictionary doesn't contain any word for
> "hobby".  I tried coming up with tanru for "fun activities", but could not
> find any word for "fun".  

Maybe: {do zukte ma lo nu se zdile}?

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

Maybe {lo mo cidja cu pukrai do} "What kind of food most-pleases you?"

> 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.

I wouldn't say it's ungrammatical in English just because it's not a complete
sentence. "Ginger the by MaryAnn" would be ungrammatical. Similarly in
Lojban {la djenydjr ji la merian} is not ungrammatical, even if it is
not a full
bridi. (The consonant group "ndj" is not allowed by the Lojban phonotactics.) 
Many (most?) American TV shows are well known outside the US,
and why wouldn't females understand it? And I'm not old!  ;)

mu'o mi'e xorxes