Re: [lojban] Re: marji

["Cyril Slobin" <slobin@ice.ru>]

coi xorxes

> My guess is something like:
>
>    lo si'erboi cu marji lo snime lo bolci
>    "A snowball is made of snow in the shape of a ball."

Oh, good, thank you. But the prize for a good answer is a next question. ;-)
How to say "x1 consists of x2" in most general case? Consider "The white
color consists of seven different colors", "The mankind consist of three
races", "The atmosphere of the planet Mars consists of carboxyde only",
"The encyclopedia consists of the mass of articles". I have looked over
{gumna}, {marji}, {zbasu}, then {cmima}, {mixre}, {pagbu}, {selci}, then
{spisa}, even {xukmi} - nothing seems to fit for me. Any ideas?

... Nai hiruvalye Valimar! ...

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`it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

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