RE: [lojban] 3 loaves

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>]

From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>

> From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
> 
> la ivAn cusku di'e
> 
> >(Has anyone translated `The horce raced past the barn fell'
> >into Lojban yet?)
> 
> Either something like:
> 
> le xirma poi da bajgau ke'a pa'one'a le velcagdi'u pu farlu
> 
> or something like:
> 
> le xirma pu bajra pa'one'a le velcagdi'u foldi
> 
> Was it a trick question?

It's a famous gardenpath. You parse it as "The horse raced past
the barn" until you get to "fell", and backtrack to reanalyse
"raced" as a passive in a reduced relative instead of a preterite.

So a good Lojban translation would not necessarily have anything
to do with horses and barns, but would gardenpath. The snag of
course is that Lojban is designed to be ungardenpathable.

--And.

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