[lojban-beginners] Re: Biting off way more than I can chew -- and loving it!

[Gearhead Shem Tov <bnansel@internode.on.net>]

NQ2:  OK, the first full sentence in English and my first crack at the
bits of vocab I hazard I'll need, no serious attempt at grammatical
construction yet:

S1:    Martha Dane  paused, looking up at the purple-tinged copper
sky.
L1:     martas.dein.   [sisti]   [catlu--look/observe]  [zirpu--
purple]  [tunka--copper]  [tsani--sky/heavens]

From skimming "What is Lojban?" I think I need some sort of logical
connection between [sisti] and [catlu] to capture the sequential-ness
(how's that for linguistic savvy...) of Martha's actions, but I also
suppose I might be able to make a tanru out of [purple-tinged copper
sky] just by mooshing them into [zirpu tunka tsani], e.g. a purple-
type-of copper-type-of sky.  Would this work, or does it do violence
to the original English meaning and/or lojban?

-Bobby

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