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Re: [lojban] Translating "as"

It was a hard work. But even now I can't find correct Bangla translation.
This is the case where dictionaries can't help and even native speakers soon become annoyed by la gleki's questions.

cmn

vei

0.246117399315609

confirmed by

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%BA#Mandarin

eng

az

0.213872071597789

 

 

spa

komo

0.094630165833114

confirmed by

xorxes

ara

ka

0.090023690444854

confirmed by

Manel Ahmed-Chaouch  (Algeria)

hin

djase

0.084890760726507

confirmed by

Nikhil Sinha, banseljaj

ben

 

0.05672545406686

 

 

rus

kak

0.051855751513556

confirmed by

la gleki

por

komo

0.048828639115557

 

 

jap

tocite

0.03224532771782

confirmed by

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6

pun

ditara

0.028691760989734

confirmed by

banseljaj

deu

alts

0.027375625164517

confirmed by

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/als#German

fra

komy

0.024743353514083

 

 

ita

 

0.01632

 

 

The result is {kazve}. It would be nice to take {ka'ei} as a BAI but it might be already taken. {ka'ei} was in CAhA (see that infamous topic on MUhEI, possible worlds etc.)

Can we take special measures (like {dinri} was changed to {donri}, {ckamu} to {mleca} ) and choose {komve}/{ko'ei} instead ?


On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 2:25:03 AM UTC+4, xorxes wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:20 AM, la gleki <gleki.is...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In English the correct translation is "in the capacity of". It's kinda
> idiom.
> In Russian the correct translation is "v roli" (literally "in the role of").
> It's kinda another idiom.
> doi .xorxes., how is this concept expressed in Spanish?

The formal/bureaucratic "in the capacity of" would be "en calidad de"
(lit. "in quality of").

But the usual way to express this concept in English is "as" and in
Spanish it's "como", so I wouldn't call the longer forms "the correct
translation".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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