Re: [lojban] Lettorals

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  You have to understand that when a letter is used by itself, it acts
an anaphora (a "pronoun" if you will).  By convention, if it's not
defined using goi, it stands for the last sumti starting with this
letter.  So " lo ractu poi ponse lo kosta daski a lo junla poi ry ke’a
dy ka’e lebna" means "a rabbit that had a coat pocket or a watch which
R(=the rabbit) could it could be taken from D (=the pocket)".

  See the reference grammar, chapter 17, section 9, as well as other places.

        --gejyspa

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Donny <mizenki@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently glossing a paragraph in Lojban (the third paragraph of
> the Lojban translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), and I am
> stuck on a few words because they just don't seem to make any sense in
> context.
>
> The word 'abu' pops up quite a few times, as well at 'jy' and 'ry'.
> Looking up these words tells me that they are just the names for the
> letters 'a', 'j', and 'r', but that translation makes no sense at all
> when used in the context. Do these words have other meanings?
>
> i la’e di’u no’e ba’e mutce le ka cizra ijenaiji’a la alis jinvi le
> du’u ba’e
> mutce le ka nalfadni kei fa le nu tirna le nu le ractu cu sezysku lu
> oiro’a
> oiro’a mi lerci li’u to baku ca le nu abu pensi la’e di’u kei abu ri
> te sidbo le
> du’u ei ri abu cizra i ku’i caku piro ri simlu le ka rarna toi i ku’i
> ca le nu le
> ractu ca’a lebna lo junla le kosta daski gi’e catlu jy gi’e di’a sutra
> kei la alis
> spaji sa’irbi’o ki’u le nu lindi pagre le abu menli fa le si’o abu pu
> noroi viska
> lo ractu poi ponse lo kosta daski a lo junla poi ry ke’a dy ka’e lebna
> i bai
> le nu kucli kei abu bajra pagre le foldi gi’e jersi ry gi’e u’adai
> viska le nu ry
> canci mo’ine’i lo barda ke ractu kevna noi cnita le spabi’u
>
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