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[lojban-beginners] Re: fanva 2



On 6/2/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Saturday 02 June 2007 18:36, Vid Sintef wrote:
> la borat.sagdi,iev. me le kazak karnyfi'u co cfika fi'e la
> sacat.baron.koxen. no'u le brito jibxam
> Borat Sagdiyev is a fictional Kazakh journalist portrayed by British
> comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
>
> * {kazak} is my invention (I couldn't find an official one).
> * {fi'e} is not meant to be a true translation of "portrayed by", but I
> think it's equally reasonable here.

I would say {kazax}. You need either {me la kazax} ({le kazak} is
ungrammatical) or a fu'ivla such as {natmrkazaxa}.

I'm no Kazakh speaker, but AFAICT, their language has no {x} and their autonym is closest to {kazak}. mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan