[lojban-beginners] Re: POM: Give him one!

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:22, Cortesi wrote:
> Continuing the screenplay (http://www.tassos-oak.com/tempp/
> barsoomian.html)
>
> Cut to a wordless scene of John Carter waking on Mars and discovering
> his surroundings, which include a stone structure he does not
> recognize to be an incubator of the Green Men.
>
> A party of Green Warriors on thoats ride over the crest of the hill
> and see Carter as he is discovering how amazingly high he can leap in
> the low gravity of Barsoom.

What's a thoat?

> DOTAR NORS
>
> ua xunpre .i. go'i ba catra loi sovycifnu
>
> SUPER: A Red One! He will kill the hatchlings!
>
> (discovery) red-person. (last bridi) future kills the mass of
> individuals who are egg-infants.
>
> {ri} or {go'i}? {xunpre} is a bridi, not a sumti.

Neither. {ta} or {tu}.

> TARS TARKAS
>
> ui ko denpa .i. no xunpre ka'e du'i plipe
>
> SUPER: Wait! No Red One jumps so!
>
> (urgent) you-imperative wait. Zero red-person innately-able so-much-
> as jumps

{ui} isn't "urgent", it's 'happy".

{ka'e du'i plipe} is ungrammatical. {ka'e plipe du'i} or {du'iku ka'e plipe}.

> {mi ckire la noras} for that difficult sentence; I had no idea how to
> say "jumps so" == "can jump like that." All the pro-sumti refer back
> to something that was said; here we want to refer to something seen
> but not (yet) uttered. Makes you respect the terseness of English...

You could also use {tai}.

phma