Re: [lojban] crossword puzzle

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

2011/3/20 Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>:
> 2011/3/20 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>> Some of the definitions I found misleading:
>
>> should be "selmanci", not "selspaji".
> I would have understood better if you had suggested {manci}.

Right, "manci" goes with "selspaji" and "selmanci" with "spaji". It
doesn't make much difference here anyway since "lo nu broda" and "lo
nu se broda" are the same event.

> My
> reasoning to provide that hint is that when one says {u'e} it is
> surprised.

"ue" is surprise, "u'e" is wonder.

>> The "bolci" of 4 down was confusing to me, I don't associate any
>> bolci-ness with that.
> Isn't a {plise} round?

Not particularly, at least compared to fruits like oranges,
grapefruits, grapes... Apples have a very characteristic shape of
their own.

> I feared that the reference to being healthy
> would have been more controversial (I now that many languages have a
> proverb about apples and doctors, but not all!).

That's how I finally figured it was plise anyway.

>> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> While I'm at that. I never understood why you don't say {mi'e xorxes
> mu'o} since, in my mind, nothing should follow {mu'o}.

"mu'o" is in COI, so it will normally be followed by the name of the
person you are talking to or by another COI, as in "mu'o mi'e". It
doesn't matter much in a written context, but in a radio context where
you are taking turns to talk, if you just end with "mu'o" your
interlocutor can't be completely certain that you have already
finished (with an elided "do'u"), or whether you will still be saying
a name, so "mu'o do'u" would be safer.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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