Re: [lojban] META : Who is everyone (and what are they saying)

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 08:21 AM 9/18/01 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) scripsit:
>
> > Two pieces of text I would like to see in Lojban. Both look like they
> > would translate well.
>
> Well, I thought about it, but broke down on the very first line.
> No prenu cu daplu is simply an obvious truth in Lojban, not
> worth saying. How does one translate the "is" of genuine metaphor?

Before the recent controversy, I would have said "ckaji le ka daplu" (no 
man is characterized by island-ness) but I'm not sure how this fits with 
the hardliner ka.

Now I might try simsa, or perhaps more literally using the indicated ellipsis:

no prenu cu dunli lo daplu [le ka ce'u sepli]

lojbab
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