[lojban] Re: King Kong

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Saturday 28 January 2006 23:55, Yanis Batura wrote:
> The noble crusade to expand Wikipedia with stubs is going on!
> In today's "article" about King Kong movies,
> http://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong
> I wanted to add to the last sentence "...and is the film with the
> largest budget unadjusted for inflation", but have stopped after
> {gi'e}...   I now fear that a translation of this phrase will be as huge as
> King-Kong himself  :)

The hard concepts are "budget" and "inflation". A budget is a plan to pay 
something, so {lejyselpla}. Inflation is a decrease in the value of money, 
but you'd have to adjust even if it increased, so it's a variation in the 
value of money, {dinvamtercne}. So {ko'a brarai lo dinvamtercne nalselstika 
lejyselpla lo'i skina} (or is it {...fo lo'i skina}?).  Not so big after all.

Btw, {kong} means that the "g" is pronounced. If it isn't, it's {kon}.

phma


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