Re: Pregnant Mice

[John Cowan <cowan@DRV.CBC.COM>]

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Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

> Mia wrote:
> # I don't know, but I think I bought a pregnant mouse.
>
> Here's an attempt in Lojban.  John Cowan, opinions?
>
> ju'ocu'i mi te vecnu lo .ia baza se jbena smacu
>
> certainty-scalar-neutral 1st-person 3rd-conversion sell/buy thing-which-is
> belief future-middle-range 2nd-conversion be-born mouse
>
> (uncertainty!) I buy a (belief!) sometime-in-the-middle-future giving-birth
> type of mouse.
>
> (we have no gismu for "pregnant"?)

No, but the lujvo "pazvau" (panzi vasru, literally "be an offspring container")
is in the list.

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John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
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