[lojban-beginners] Re: Please review # 001

[ANDREW PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com>]

Oh, I forgot to add this to my e-mail of a few minutes ago.

It took me a long time to find {tezu'e}.  It's not there in Lojban For Beginners and even in the CCL it barely merits a mention.  Surely, ".....in order to...." and "...for the purpose of..." are used frequently in all languages.  Am I missing something?

.andrus.

----- Original Message ----
From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:08:14 AM
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Please review # 001


On Wednesday 18 April 2007 23:51, ANDREW PIEKARSKI wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please review my translation and make appropriate suggestions.  Apart from
> the grammar, are there better ways of saying this?:
>
> "In the morning, I drink coffee quickly as I have to go to my kid's school
> in order to meet his teacher."
>
> .i ti'u le cerni mi cu sutra pinxe lo ckafi ki'u mi bilga lenu klama le
> ckule pe le mi panzi tezu'e lenu penmi le ri ctuca

{ti'u} is normally used with a number, such as {ti'u li so [pe lo cerni]}; I'd 
say {ca lo cerni}.

{cu} is not necessary after {mi}, but is grammatical.

{ki'u} has to be either {iki'ubo} or {ki'u lo nu}.

Instead of {mi bilga lenu klama}, I'd say {ei mi klama}.

Pierre