[lojban] Re: le finpe

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Friday 16 April 2004 00:27, sshiskom wrote:
> I translated a definition of "fish" from Korean to Lojban.
>
> le finpe cu danlu gi'e ponse le kamjybo'u gi'e xabju le djacu gi'e
> na'o ponse le fipfepri .e le fipybirka .e le fipypi'a
>
> Does this look good? How can I add it to jbovlaste?

This isn't a definition; it's a statement about some particular fish. If you 
changed it to {ro finpe cu danlu li'o}, that makes it a universal statement, 
which is closer to a definition.

lo fipybirka is specifically a pectoral fin. The general term for fins is 
{fipnalci}.

By {fipypi'a}, I assume you mean scales. The word for that is {kapyplita}. Not 
all scales are on fish, and not all fish have scales. {lo latfi'e cu na'o te 
kapyplita} means that at least one catfish normally has scales, which it 
doesn't.

For jbovlaste, you add x1, x2, etc. to the definition:
x1 danlu x2 gi'e te kamjybo'u ...

phma
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa


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