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Re: [lojban] Secondary meaning of {cevni}



On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:13:21PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, v4hn <me@v4hn.de> wrote:
> > Language has to provide means for people to _express_ what things _might_
> > be
> > and therefore provide a basis for people to express what _they think_
> > things are.
> >
> > It's not, and nobody said it is, dependent on the language
> > whether the Goa'uld are gods or not! It depends on the perspective!
> > If you listen to the Goa'uld servants speaking english, they might still
> > utter "The Goa'uld are gods". If you listen to a member of SG-1, they
> > might utter "The Goa'uld are no gods". Neither one is said to be wrong
> > from a pure 'language perspective'.
> >
>    tu'e paunai xu la'i go,auld la'a na fatci cevni

mi na'e kucli mu'i lodu'u do na ka'e satci skicu lodu'u lo cevni ku mokau

> . iku'i gy te krici lo nu cevni ku lo selfu tu'u iseni'ibo ri pilno
> lu lo cevni li'u .ije lo drata pilno ba'e lu le cevni li'u to'i pu ju'o la xorlos toi


v4hn

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