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Re: [lojban] la lojbo kurji



2010/10/7 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM, .alyn.post.
<alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
> I've written an oath for myself regarding Lojban.  This stretched my
> fluency a bit, so I'd like some feedback on how I might make it
> better.
>
>  ni'o mi me la lojbo kurji
>  .i mi ca nupre lo za'i go'o kei mi .e la lojbo kurji

For an oath "nu'e" is better than "mi ca nupre". You are not reporting
that someone (in this case yourself) is making a promise. You are
actually making the promise.
So "nu'e mi .e la lojbo kurji do'u go'o".

>  .i mi ba tavla fo la lobjan. de'i lo ro djedi

"lo ro djedi" is not a date, you want "ca" not "de'i".

And "ca ro (lo) djedi", unless you are content to do it at some single
point in time valid for all days.

"A side effect of the above is that in xorlo, if you mean "one bear", consider actually saying "pa cribe". It's ever so much more specific. xorxes points out that to refer to one bear, "lo pa cribe" is actually a bit better; "pa cribe cu broda" means that exactly one cribe in the whole world brodas, which is often not what you want. We (those of us that have actually been using xorlo for the last few months; there are at least half a dozen active users on #lojban now) have found that context is almost always sufficient, however."
 
>  .i mi ba jmina lo cnino nupre lo vi nupre

"Add a new oath-taker to this here oath-taker"?

If you mean "a new commitment to this commitment" then its "lo cnino
se nupre lo dei se nupre", but maybe you are promising to add adepts,
I don't know.

>  .i ganai mi tavla fi no da de'i lo cabdei gi mi tavla fi lo vi nupre

"ca lo cabdei"

So, either you talk about something, or you talk about yourself?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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