[lojban-beginners] Re: Translation

[Naomi K <alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com>]

Ok, with your help, I have hopefully improved my statement:

{lenu ro do cu pu zukte ta se ki'ubo mi djica lenu mi jikselsi'a}
The-event all you acted like 'that' is the reason I want the-event I am socially-esteemed.

Hmm...I'm thinking that {ro do} would be more appropriate {ro prenu},
since he is only addressing the event that his friends did, and not
what everyone did.

I added {pu} to hopefully stress that this event has passed, and is not going on right this minute.

{se ki'ubo}. Not the first time I've made a mistake between the 'because' and 'therefore' versions -_-'

{jikselsi'a}. I agree that this is more appropriate of the concept of 'popular' than {selju'i}


ki'esai 

mi'e nei,omis

On 11/2/05, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:

{loi ro prenu cu zukte ta .iki'abo mi djica lenu mi selju'i}

 

Naomi: I have a suspicion that not only Your {loi} is - as xorxes stated - not what

You want, but that isn't {lo}, either.

Let's think it over (I'm not damn good in that, but let's make a try :)). If You say

{lo prenu}, the statement Your bridi expresses is supposed to be true for all the

people alive (or not, but that's not important for us). Saying {le prenu} You can

pick some certain members of Humanity and announce something only applying

to that circle of humans instead of You, Thomas, me... and everybody else. :)

 

Oh, and (as xorxes noted) {ki'a} "I didn't understand this and this" is not the same

as {ki'u} "...for which the reason is...". :)

 

.a'o mi sidju

.i mi'e xiLI,odor.