Re: [lojban] Re: A comment on one of my jboselkei translations

["Betsemes" <betsemes@gmail.com>]

So then a better translation would read {mi pu viska lo lunbe nixli pa'o lo canko be le ragve dinju
ca le cabycerni}

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From: Matt Arnold

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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:27 PM

Subject: [lojban] Re: A comment on one of my jboselkei translations

On 3/22/06, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> I also didn't think that a past tense tag was necessary because of the {ca
> le cabycerni} tense sumti. Am I wrong?

It isn't necessary. It isn't necessary even without it; tense is optional in
Lojban.

Tense is optional in texts written originally in Lojban, but the English to be translated was asking for it.
-epkat