Re: [lojban] Re: Introduction, and zutse/se sutse

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:14:30PM -0500, Craig wrote:
> And, as a newbie and thus lacking the prior context, does my sig make any
> sense to you at all?
> 
>      '.i do cu vanci le ba panje xusra
>      .i denci gunma le se gidva'

  Grammatically, sure.  Content-wise, not a bit.  With the help of jbofi'e
(to make up for my poor vocabulary) I translate this as:

You are the evening of those who were spongey asserters, the toothy
group of guided ones.

  I can only assume that you're using some very unfamiliar metaphors..  {do
cu vanci} might mean that you are the last of, or near the end of a sequence
of, or signalling the end of something.  {le ba panje xusra} might be an
individual or group who were particularly wishy-washy in their assertions.
Perhaps a politician or fence-sitter.  I assume that the elided x1 sumti of
the second bridi is {le ba panje xusra}, because I don't see {do} as making
much sense in the x1 of gunma.  How the group might be toothy or somehow
related to teeth is unclear.  Maybe they're dentists.  

--John