Re: [lojban] Another comic (Again!)

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Michael Turniansky
>
>> 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}

My impression from the context was that he meant "our ancestors many
generations ago". It didn't occur to me to think of "riryriryrirni" as
literally "great-grand parents". And thinking about it now, since they
are father and son they probably don't have a common "lo riryriryrirni
be ma'a" (not "pe" again!).

Maybe "lo dzedzena be ma'a" captures the "many generations ago" idea better.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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