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[lojban] Re: What is the most direct translation on English.
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- From: "Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:40:25 -0500
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 20:19, Opi Lauma <opilauma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> .i le fanfa se vecnu le ctuca le cukta
> The translator ...
I think you have two options here: use "buy", or use the passive
voice: "is sold by the teacher the book". Putting a prepositional
phrase between a verb and its direct object is pretty weird, but I
think allowable in English.
And I really don't see the problem with "buy". It's a precise
complement to "sell", so there is no meaning lost. The official
English definition of vecnu says that the x2 place is the "buyer", so
the word has official backing.
Chris Capel
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