Re: [lojban] Re: How to catch a hare?

["Cyril Slobin" <slobin@slobin.ran.pp.ru>]

On 2-Feb-2004 17:39 Pierre Abbat wrote:

>> > How to catch a hare?                    ta'i ma kavbu lo ractu
>> > Hide youself in the bushes              i ko mipri ko vi lo demspa
>> > and produce the sound of a carrot,      i ko cmoni gau lo'e najystagi

> .iji'a mi stidi zo gejrdauko .a zo spatrdauko peseba'i zo najystagi

I always prefer lujvo over fu'ivla.

> .i mi cusku zo cmatricu fi'o smuni la'o gy. bush .gy .iku'i fe la'o
> gy. bushes .gy. zo demspa mapti

> When I described a crape myrtle as {barda cmatricu}, I meant "large bush"; I
> wouldn't call it a tree, since it doesn't have a trunk. I wouldn't call it
> {demspa} either.

There are at leat four lujvo for "bush" in the lujvoste. I've choose
{demspa} because density is something important when you hide youself
into, while smallness isn't.

co'o mi'e kir.

--
Cyril Slobin <slobin@slobin.ran.pp.ru>


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