Re: [lojban] do ga'ezga le sfani le ka xanto

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/15/2002 10:17:28 AM Central Daylight Time, phma@webjockey.net writes:

Subj:[lojban] do ga'ezga le sfani le ka xanto
Date:4/15/2002 10:17:28 AM Central Daylight Time
From:phma@webjockey.net
To:lojban@yahoogroups.com
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Is that a good translation of "elefanta ek muias poiei"/"sdelaesh iz mukhi
slona"?

Why not just {do zbasu lo xanto lo sfani}?  To be sure, it is metaphorical, so you  might want to put in a {pe'a} somewhere (before? after? what?} .  Even if you wanted to get more literal, I am not sure that {ganse le du'u ce'u xanto} is quite the addition asked for -- in the Greek anyhow.  Is not the point that "you" react to small matters as to large ones? "You make the stimulus of elephantness out of flies" may be on track but really requires that we see {ganse} as "stimulus" to make the point.  How about {do frati tu'a lo xanto lo sfani}?