[lojban-beginners] Re: Please review # 001

["Turniansky, Michael" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>]

  Well, the modals cover all kinds of shades of meaning (and you can
make your own as well with the fi'o construction), but yes, I agree it's
rather hard to skim down that list in the CLL (chapter 9, section 17) to
figure out what you want. But for example, you could have wanted to use
mu'i here ("with the motive of...") (which I have probably been my
personal 1st choice, but yours was probably better) or ja'e ("which
results in..."), heck, maybe even "fi'o tertcu" ("needed for purpose"),
etc.

                 --gejyspa



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[mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of ANDREW
PIEKARSKI
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:39 AM
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Please review # 001

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