Re: [lojban] Translation help

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 24 July 2010 13:47:00 Warrigal wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM,  <tsofian@aol.com> wrote:
> > Would someone be so kind as to translate the following from English to
> > Lojban.
>
> I'll do my best.
>
> > Forest of Refuge
>
> "the forest of safety" (common noun): "lo snura ricfoi"
> "the Forest of Safety" (proper noun): "la snura ricfoi"
>
> Replacing "lo" with "la" turns the phrase from a description into a name.

How about "nurselkla" (a safe place to go to) for "refuge"?

> > Monastery
>
> There's no existing word for this; the compound word I came up with
> for "the monastery" is "lo jdaseiprezda", literally "the
> religiously-separate-person-home".

Sounds good to me.

> > Library of ancient wisdom
>
> "the library of ancient knowledge": "lo tcepru selju'o ckusro"
> "the library of ancient wiseness": "lo tcepru kamprije ckusro"

"ancient" could also be translated "dzena", which means "ancestral".

> > Sky Pirates
>
> "the sky thieves-of-the-sea": "lo tsani blozeile'a"
> "the sky thieves": "lo tsani zeile'a"
> "the flying thieves": "lo vofli zeile'a"

That has to be "zerle'a" or "zeirle'a". "vofli zeile'a" is a quite unclear 
lujvo of "vofli" and a preposition meaning "in class". Could also 
be "vijyzeile'a" (stealers of airplanes, or people who use airplanes to 
steal) or "vijyzergau" (people who commit crimes that have something to do 
with airplanes), or "vijyzersazri" (people who unlawfully take command of 
planes).

> > New people
>
> "the people we're unfamiliar with": "lo cnino prenu"
> "the people that are unfamiliar with something": "lo se cnino"
>
> > If someone was to give a complement that transalted as "you think like
> > us" how would that be written?
>
> ".i do pensi fi'o simsa mi'a" would probably be adequate. I'm assuming
> that "us" means "me and at least one other but not you".

Or "do simsa mi'a lo ka pensi".

Pierre

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