[lojban] Re: [Anecdote #13] fonxa tavla

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:50:46AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:45:50PM -0400, komfo,amonan wrote:
> > On 8/5/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:37:41AM +0700, Yanis Batura wrote:
> > >> lo nakspe cu cusku fi le speni be vo'a fe lu
> > >>
> > >>   doi dirba do ba'o fonxa tavla ze'i .ue lo mentu be li reno .i go'i ma
> > >.a'u
> > >>
> > >> li'u .i spusku fa le ninmu lu
> > >>
> > >>   lo srera namcu batkyci'a
> > >
> > >.u'i sai .i ku'i mi stidi lu lo *nu* srera namcu batkyci'a toi
> > 
> > 
> > Hm. But I think the woman is responding specifically to the {ma}
> > from {go'i ma}, which expands to {do ba'o fonxa tavla ma ze'i ue
> > lo mentu be li reno}. So the answer is rightly the person she was
> > talking to, hence {lo srera namcu batkyci'a}. Let me know if I'm
> > missing something here, and sorry I couldn't manage the Lojban for
> > that explanation.
> 
> Oh, you're quite correct.  Whoops.
> 
> Here's my crack at a Lojban response, just for fun:
> 
> .y. .ie nai .i le sumti be zo tavla bei li re cu prenu gi'e nai
> fasnu se ra'a zo ma

s/se ra'a/ra'a/, for once (because if I had broken the ra'a out into
its own sentence, it would be ".i zo ma srana la'e di'u")

-Robin

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