[lojban] Re: [Anecdote #13] fonxa tavla

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:45:50PM -0400, komfo,amonan wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> >On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:37:41AM +0700, Yanis Batura wrote:
> >> lo nakspe cu cusku fi le speni be vo'a fe lu
> >>
> >>   doi dirba do ba'o fonxa tavla ze'i .ue lo mentu be li reno .i go'i ma
> >.a'u
> >>
> >> li'u .i spusku fa le ninmu lu
> >>
> >>   lo srera namcu batkyci'a
> >
> >.u'i sai .i ku'i mi stidi lu lo *nu* srera namcu batkyci'a toi
> 
> 
> Hm. But I think the woman is responding specifically to the {ma}
> from {go'i ma}, which expands to {do ba'o fonxa tavla ma ze'i ue
> lo mentu be li reno}. So the answer is rightly the person she was
> talking to, hence {lo srera namcu batkyci'a}. Let me know if I'm
> missing something here, and sorry I couldn't manage the Lojban for
> that explanation.

Oh, you're quite correct.  Whoops.

Here's my crack at a Lojban response, just for fun:

.y. .ie nai .i le sumti be zo tavla bei li re cu prenu gi'e nai
fasnu se ra'a zo ma

-Robin

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