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RE: "What I have for dinner depends on what there is in the fridge"
- Subject: RE: "What I have for dinner depends on what there is in the fridge"
- From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:08:16 PST
la xod cusku di'e
>Call me a spoilsport, but I happen not to think that the inability to
>exactly translate a given English sentence into a short Lojban bridi and
>maintain all the cultural nuances is a problem.
I agree that is not a problem.
In this case, we don't even have that inability. We have a
perfectly good short translation that maintains roughly the
right nuances:
le nu mi citka makau cu jalge le nu makau nenri le lekmi'i
But what And is asking for is the logical structure underlying
this sentence, and that is an interesting question, whether
or not there is a short and neat Lojban form to express it.
co'o mi'e xorxes