Re: [lojban] LogFest Phone Game results

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote:

>
> la greg cusku di'e
>
> > > Creatures four-legged and two play along the river.
> > > loi danlu noi remei najo vomei tuple ke'a ku'o cu kelci vu'u lo rirxe
> >
> >in my ma'oste, {vu'u} is "minus" along is {mo'ire'o}. How did the next
> >participant have the faintest idea what was going on? (Apart from taking
> >pot
> >luck among the two or three *likely* possibilities?).
>
> Maybe {bu'u} was meant? Would {te'e} be best? In any case,
> {mo'ire'o} is not this "along". I can't think of any good
> example where {mo'ire'o} would make sense. {mo'i} in general
> is not very useful, as it refers to a general movement of the
> whole event and not the movement of one of the sumti, which is
> what we usually want.



Whoever transcribed the text probably mistook "ru'u" for "vu'u".



-- 
Nisha, 26, clutching an ice cream and her toddler son, read impassively
through a leaflet calling for immediate dialogue with Pakistan to avert
the horror of a nuclear war. "Why should we worry about this?" she said
with a shrug. "India has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan. We will
wipe them off the map and win the war."