Re: tecu'u la lojbab. gi'e loi drata

[Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx]

At 08:27 PM 7/28/99 +0200, Goran Topic wrote:
>From: Goran Topic <amadan@ibm.net>
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>Translation follows.
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>ni'o .ui nu mi klama lo surstu kei bavlamdei
>.i ba limna joi pilselgu'i joi surla bo co'e
>gi'e .u'u.uuse'i claxu le skami vau fa mi
>.i nalzvati masti
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>ni'o mi xenru co banske naldju co dukse doi lojbab.
>.iku'i le ca me mi le pu me mi lo ni ke'a djuno ku zmadu
>.i la lojban. cu drata bangu nunfrica selzu'e selfi'i
>.i lo'enu cipra la sidbrsapiruorf. cu ralmu'i tu'a ly.
>.ipau ri sedu'o le te frica ka'exu jai nibli da pe loi remna rarna bo
>bangu kampu
>.i ledu'u lo'e rafsi nunjo'e be mi cu rarna cu selji'i mi
>.isejupau le la'ede'u nu nibli cu saske xamgu xu
>.i pe'i lenu jarco ledu'u loi remna rarna bo bangu la lojban. lo'e
>nunjvofi'i ca'a panra keiji'a sarcu tu'a lo'e nunskexau
>.iku'i ka'e jarco .inaja so'ocu'o pe'i ke logji se zukte fa lenu pilno
>lo selfi'i bangu vauvau pei
>.i mi geirgei zo'o fau lo'enu ko mi bitygau ledu'u mi srera
>.i cinri
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>co'o mi'e. goran. fa'o
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>I'm going on my holidays tomorrow, there'll be swimming, and sunbathing,
>and other leisurely activities... and I'll miss my computer :(
>I'll be gone for a month.
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>I regret my still insufficient command of linguistics, lojbab, but
>still, I know more than I did before... :) The goal in creating lojban
>was to make a language which would be different from other languages.
>The principal motive for its development was testing the Sapir-Whorf
>hypothesis.
>Keeping that in mind, can lojban be used for deducing the universals of
>natural human languages? Despite the fact that stringing rafsi feels
>very natural to me, would such a deduction be scientifically solid,
>acceptable?
>To make an acceptable scientific argument, I think it would be necessary
>to show the parallelism between the compounding mechanisms in lojban and
>natural languages. If you can do that, though, why need lojban?
>Convince me I'm wrong and I'll be very happy. I find it an interesting
>subject.

mi cpedu lenu la nitcion cu spuda semu'i lenu ri djunymau

mi'e lojbab
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