| In a message dated 4/13/2001 2:05:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
jay.kominek@colorado.edu writes: > ko gasnu vorme ganlo The list is ambiguous, but I am pretty sure that in x1 (portal/passage/entrance-way) is closed/shut/not open, preventing passage/access to x2 by x3 x3 is prevented passage or access, not the agent of the closed/shut/not open-ness. In a message dated 4/13/2001 1:20:52 PM Central Daylight Time, david@shockey.com writes: The big problem is the distinction between sumti and selbri (nouns and verbs, as we would say in English): you don't make it, so you get long complex selbri (verb phrases) with no objects
OK, maybe {ko vi klama} is more lojbanic, but saying that can start a row.
This says "Please be a giving book about me" You want {pe'u ko dunda le cukta mi}, if you have a patiuclar book in mind or {pe'u ko dunda lo cukta mi} for a book, whatever comes to hand. ko jinru OK (we will not at this point get fussy about what the child is to immerse himself in and what he is to do in it, though given a six-year-old's jesuitical strain, {ko lumci vo'a} might be safer) pe’u ko jgari mi On the same ground, watch out for clutching and choking.
This gets complex. {gasnu} object is an event description , {lenu...}, in this case that the door (a specific one, I assume) is closed: le vorme cu ganlo ({cu} to mark the beginning of the selbri -- or the end of the sumti). So the whole comes to {ko gasnu lenu le vorme cu ganlo} (The original said --whatever it may mean -- "Be agent doorly shut")
xu le ckule cu pluka (do) (We skip over the fact that {pluka} expects an event description in the first place, so the question is "really" aboutsome event involving the school and so should have teh subject-rasing {tu'a}in front of it. don't worry about that yet) The original is "Is it a scholarly pleasure?"
ko lumci ledo xance (the {fe} would go before {ledo} but is unneeded since the sumti is in the right place) ko cliva klaji ko cliva le klaji (seems more of an abandonment, but I can't think of a better word) pe’u ko zutse ledo stizu Yup. ko smaji And yup again. A really nice start! |