Re: lujvo

["Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" <Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de>]

--- In lojban@egroups.com, rob@t... wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:44:20PM -0700, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> > i ie i mi za'o darxi lo morsi xirma
>
> .u'i di'u pa xamgu se fanva fi le lojbo
> .i mi ca seltirna cmila
> --
> la rabspir.

Interesting! Since I do not know a saying like that (English or
Spanish?) I had to take its meaning from the Lojban phrase:

I go on hitting a dead horse (?)

As for /za'o/ overcompletion:
Was my (initial) goal to *kill* the horse by beating it? And now
(after having *reached* it) I still go on with my action - with a
goal no longer reachable! (e.g. mi za'o klama la paris.)
Was my goal to make the (live) horse running in higher speed? And now
(after having *missed* this goal) go on with my action...
Or even: Did I want to hit a dead horse? - And after a while doing
so, I still continue whipping it...

la .aulun.

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