Re: [lojban] Re: Translation Help

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

On Thursday 05 August 2010 05:03:23 ftmassana wrote:
> Thanks everyone,
> I'm not really an English speaker, and I apologize for my mistakes.
>
> The original text is in Spanish, the language I'm writing the book.
> The text is:
>
> "La eternidad no se mide con tiempo. El tiempo no sueña con momentos.
> Los momentos se escriben con eternidad."
>
> For me it is really difficult to translate the connotations of those
> "con" in English language for my ignorance.

Lojban has no prepositions as vague as "con", except "do'e" which can mean 
anything. Could you make some sentences with easier-to-figure-out nouns with 
the same meanings of "con"? For instance, "La talla se mide con la cinta".

Pierre
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