Re: [lojban] another la .alis. induced question

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

On Friday 17 December 2010 21:22:55 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> Kind of. The difference is that "binxo lo tai darno" is perfectly nice
> Lojban, but "becomes (the far thing (in form zo'e)" is horrible
> English, so the final step has to be to put it into normal English,
> which might be something like "gets so far away". I don't remember
> what this was a translation of. Was it when Alice loses sight of her
> feet?

Yes. It's in chapter 2:

for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, 
they were getting so far off

ca le nu abu catlu lei jamfu kei jy simlu le ka jibni le ka na ka'e se viska 
kei kei ki'u le nu ca'o binxo lo tai darno

mu'omi'e .pier.
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