Re: First stab

[John Cowan <cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx]

Ivan Stojic wrote:

> mi rinsa do

"I greet you". Correct.

> .i mi se cmene ivan.

"I am named Ivan". You left out the word "zo" before "ivan." which
must be used to make it into a quotation (there are also other
ways to do so); in Lojban we say "I am named 'Ivan'".
This is ungrammatical but intelligible.

> .i croatian. ve jbena

"Croatia is my birthplace." You left off "la" before "croatian."

> .i la lojban mi se prami

"Lojban is loved by me." Correct.

> ni'o mi pacna le drani ku le se ciska

"[New subject] I hope the correct thing, the writing".
This is grammatical but not sensible; it gives "pacna" an unwanted
x3 place. You probably want:

mi pacna le nu le se ciska ku drani
I hope-for the event-of (the writing is-correct).

> I wonder how close is what I wanted to say to what I said ;)))

Much better than I did on my first stab!

BTW, Goran Topic (amadan@usa.net) is our other Croatian Lojbanist.

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