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Re: [lojban] Translation help



On 24 July 2010 18:47, Warrigal <ihope127+w@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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".

Why not something with "malsi" (temple)? Many Buddhist monasteries are temples as well (in Pali, monasteries/nunneries/convents are generally called "vihara", which can also refer to a temple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery#Buddhism).


On 25 July 2010 00:13, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
"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).

I think the focus should be on the domain of activity: "sky pirate" in skies, "sea pirate" on seas.


On 25 July 2010 02:09, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2010 19:35:16 Warrigal wrote:
> I'm not really clear on the meaning of "lo ka pensi".  Is it the
> property of thought, i.e. that property which is possessed by all
> thinking things and only thinking things, or is it the specific manner
> in which someone thinks?  I had assumed the former, which would make
> that sentence mean "You are similar to us in that you and we both
> think".

How about "lo pu'u pensi" or "lo zu'o pensi"?

I would say "do simsa mi lo nu pensi". The official restriction of the x2 to "ka/ni" is not useful, in my opinion. (Note also that "mi" can mean multiple speakers.)

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