[lojban-beginners] Re: cusku balvi

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 2/28/06, Stephen Simmons <ssimmons@pcisys.net> wrote:
> how does one express the idea of
> predicting the future in lojban? cusku balvi is the best tanru I could
> come up with, but it doesn't have the right place structure;

"predict", "foretell", "anticipate" all use {purci} rather than {balvi}.
I suggest {prujungau}.

(Of course, the prediction comes _before_ the predicted, but the
predicted comes _after_ the prediction, so either {purci} or {balvi}
works depending on how you look at it.)

> for that
> matter, how does one express place structure in lojban?]

{sumti stura}?

mu'o mi'e xorxes