[lojban] Re: Borges translation

[Arnt Richard Johansen <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Ignoring the few typos, I get:

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Arika Okrent wrote:

> Here's what I walked in with:
> li'a ro da poi se ciste le munje fi'e zo'e cu cunso gi'e culno so'i smadi
> .i da poi krinu le go'i cu caisampu
> .i ma'a na djuno ma le munje

Obviously, the structure of the universe, devised by someone, is random 
and full of persons who guess. There is a reason for that, which *IS* 
simple. What is it that we don't know about the universe?

> Here's what came out of the discussion -- while it certainly wasn't settled definitively, it got some general agreement (with the caveat that my notes are hard to read, and that the gismu choices weren't fully settled):
>
> li'a ro da poi ve ganzu le munje cu cunso na gi'e nai barda lo ka sesmadi
> .i da poi krinu la'e di'u cu mutsce sampu
> .i da zo'u ma'a na djuno le du'u le munje cu mokau

Obviously, not every ontology of the universe is random, neither is its 
amount of conjectures large. The reason for this is very simple. As 
regards something, we don't know what the universe is like.

--
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
[T]he savvy DXer will usually bet a pair of nickels he can pinpoint the DXCC
country of the "chopity-chow-pit chow-chow-pi-chow" even before he hears the
call sign.         -John F. Lindholm, QST vol. 66 no. 3 p. 83


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