Re: [lojban] Supporting Lojbanic babies.

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

On Tuesday 01 November 2011 05:57:15 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I have recently had the pleasure to witness the birth of my two
> amazing girl infants.

uicaidai!

> 1.  An indication here if you'd be willing to help with vocab/idiom
> issues.  My ideal here would be that I send a post here (perhaps
> with "jboverba" in the subject always?) with "I tried to say "why is
> your lip quivering?" today and failed" or so, and y'all figure it
> out, and I ignore the thread, and then someone emails me directly
> with the result.  Knowing that there's a pool of people willing to
> help there would be lovely.

I am willing. "lo do ctebi cu desku ri'a ma?"

> 2.  Right now my sleep schedule has been modified to accomodate the
> household's needs, and this is likely to last for a few weeks.  In
> particular, I have some dead time between about midnight and about
> 06:00 US/Pacific time.  People being around to chat with in Lojban
> would be lovely.  Ideally, be on IRC and then we'll skype.  I don't
> necessarily need people to do any talking, I just need more practice
> at emitting at full speed.  If the other person understands me, so
> much the better.  :)

I may be available, depending on whether I wake up before the alarm goes off. 
I don't have Skype, just IRC and a phone.

> 3.  The birth story is somewhat unusual and interesting.  Would you
> be interested in hearing it, in Lojban?  I was thinking of doing it
> on IRC, so it could be preserved for posterity; would someone be
> willing to turn it into something readable?  I would need a variety
> of vocab, in particular words for "labour" and "labour contraction"
> and "cervical dilation".  fu'ivla seem like decent choices there.
> Or, hell, cmevla.  We don't use cmevla enough for highly technical
> things around here.

I am interested. My guess at those phrases is "gutryslu nuncpu" and "gutryne'o 
nilganra".

Pierre
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