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[lojban] Re: Can you read this and tell me if it is correct?
de'i li 11 pi'e 09 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. arpgme .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> also, how does "now I desire love" translates into "caku mi djica loka
> prami"? What is "caku" and "loka"? I've never heard those words.
.skamyxatra
"{caku}" and "{loka}" are actually compound {cmavo}, not individual words; the
rules of Lojban morphology allow you to leave the spaces out between {cmavo}.
"{caku}" (i.e., "{ca ku}") is the same as placing "{ca}" before a {selbri} --
it indicates that the event being described is taking place at the present
time. I chose to move it to the start of the sentence in order to more closely
match the English word order, and, in so doing, I had to attach a "{ku}" to
keep it from taking the {sumti} "{mi}" as its object.
"{loka}" ("{lo ka}"), on the other hand, converts the {bridi} following it into
a {sumti} that refers to the property or quality of the {bridi}, in this case,
the property/quality of love.
Explaining both of these things in greater detail would take too long, and I'm
not really in the mood for typing out all that. I recommend that you start
reading "Lojban for Beginners"
<http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/book1.html>, which
explains all of this, along with most of the basic Lojban grammar, in detail.
mu'omi'e la'o gy. Minimiscience .gy.
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