Re: [lojban] Re: quest/search/sisku

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:04:53PM -0500, komfo,amonan wrote:
> On 1/20/07, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >There doesn't seem to be any word that's good for "I'm going to
> >search the whole world for The Holy Grail" or "I'm going to
> >search the countryside for The Black Knight" or whatever.
> >
> >I honestly can't think of satisfying ways to fill sisku for
> >either of these, and there's no other good word.  Suggestions?
> 
> 
> The definition of x2 of sisku has been generally reviled, and
> someone (xorxes?) assiduously ignores it & places an object there.
> As for the x3, maybe {zvati} is useful:
> 
> mi ba sisku tu'a la'e zoi fy San Graal fy ro lo'i zvati be lo
> terdi
>
> mi ba sisku tu'a la xekri xirsoi ro lo'i zvati be lo nurma

That's a very interesting trick.  It took me a while to understand
it because I hallucinated a different place structure for zvati.
:-)

I like that.  I think a lujvo (zvati+sisku) might be in order.  I'm
also wondering about mintu+sisku for the sisku everyone wants.  :-)

Now I just need to figure out what "quest" means.  :-)

-Robin

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