Re: [lojban] Another comic (Again!)

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Michael Turniansky
> <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I forgot to ask earlier. Is the "dijycre" a "dijyzbacre" or a
>> "dijyplacre" (or perhaps even a "dijycircre")?  I wasn't sure.
>
> a dijycertu is a {dinju certu} a "building-type of-expert" i.e. an
> "expert in buildings"  i.e. a "master builder".
> I didn't expect it to be obscure, actually.
>

  A master builder is a dijyzbacre, a master architect is a
dijyplacre, and ardchitectural historian is a dijycicre.  They are all
experts about buildings.  Just different types of experts.  I TRULY
did not know which one the character was (although I expected from
context he was probably not be the third), so that's why  Iasked.
Suggest using dijyzbacre.

>> Did you literally mean "riryriryrirni" or would "dzena" work jsut as
>> well, if not better?
> The orginal says "grand-grandfather" so I repeated here as well. From
> to original I didn't know if they meant it literally (but maybe not).
> I didn't think about {dzena}

  No, that's fine.  If that's what the original said, then that's what
the character meant.  riryriryrirni ( a great word for the vocal
appartus of a batrachoid race, btw....) is fine, as would be
"pafriryrirni" (since he specified a male).

           --gejyspa

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