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mi cnino cmima
Coi le tavla be fo la lojban. .i la greg. cmene mi .i xabju la suis. .i
nanla paze.
And that's about as far as I'll go in lojban this time (was most of it
right?). I've only been studying lojban for a week. I was wanting to
translate a children's stoy which goes something in the lines of :
"this is the house that jack built, this is the malt that lay in the
house that jack built, this is the rat that ate the malt that lay in
the house that jack built. etc." I got no further than the first
sentence. Here are various possibilities:
la djak. zbasu le dinju
"jack built the house" (it is a building, as jack seems to have no
intention of living it)
le dinju co se zbasu la djak.
le dinju co se zbasu be la djak.
le zbasu be la djak dinju
le dinju poi la djak. zbasu (is there confusion that the house may have
built jack here?)
le dinju poi la djak. ke'a zbasu
at least two of these must mean "The house that jack built" (as a title
for the story). Of those that are right, which is the most appropriate?
ti zbasu be la djak. dinju
le ti dinju poi la jack. zbasu
ti dinju co se zbasu be la djak.
Again I'm confused ; what I'm trying to say is: "this is the house that
jack built."
co'o
greg.