Re: A vitz for lei lojbo

[Matthew Faupel <matthew@CPDAPO.TELE.NOKIA.FI>]

la xorxes. to jambias. xu toi cusku lo'u<*

i le mi lu'a lei lojbo

*>le'u goi ko'a  .i.uinai! mi na kakne lenu mi fanva ko'a  .i mi ko'a te
preti lu<< ko'a cu se djica se smuni lu<< mi po'u pa lei lojbo >>li'u ?ji
lu<< mi po'u lu'a lei lojbo >>li'u ?ji zo zo'e >>li'u

.i mi cusku zoi glibau.

Ouch... My head hurts (zo'o)...  That took far longer than I expected and
I'm not even sure that it's correct.  Should the various answer options be
unquoted?  Should the phrase being asked about be unquoted (i.e. la'eko'a)?

In case I've messed it up so much that it's not understandable, a free
translation is:

Jorge (ZHambias?) said: "i le mi lu'a lei lojbo".  Unfortunately I couldn't
translate this.  Should it mean "I as a Lojbani", or "We the members of the
Lojbani community", or something else?

Further questions resulting from this are:

1.  When Jorge reuses "mi" later on, e.g.:

JL: i mi pu jimpe le du'u le prije le sazri cu mintu

    to mean himself, assuming that the first "mi" meant all of us, how would
    "mi" be reassigned to just mean him?  (This would be a common thing to
    do for instance in a letter relating family news).

2.  At the end, when he uses "ma'a":

JL: i pe'u do'u ko ca'o finti bau le ma'a bangu

    if "mi" was intended to mean "lu'a lei lojbo", should this just be "lemi
    bangu"?

(My phrasing of these in the third person doesn't mean I wouldn't appreciate
an answer from you yourself Jorge :-)

Finally, is the following a case of stones in glass houses, or is this
accepted usage in the Lojbani community:

JL: i zo'o zo kurji se panci le malglico
...
JL: i mi xagji le jboselsku
         -----

i.e. can you hunger for something intangible as a food or fuel?  If so, I
ask:

.glibau

.i le jboselsku cu cidja ma? gi'a livla ?ma

mi'e. matius.