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Re: [lojban] Baby words: "into", as in "into the toilet".



la .pier. cu cusku di'e
On Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:48:46 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
How do I say "please pee in the toilet" or "don't pee on the
ground"?  {fa'a} and {ne'i} both apply to the action of the main
bridi, right?  So {.e'o do pinca fa'a/ne'i/??? le vimstizu} means
something rather a lot different (and, in fact, {pinca fa'a le
vimstizu} is exactly the problem we had earlier today!).

I don't remember how to fix this; help?

I think you want "mo'ine'i", but "do pinca" is wrong. It should be "do
pincyvi'i" or "do vikmi". "do se pinca" is also true, but doesn't denote the
action.

{mo'i ne'i} doesn't work, since it would mean that the event of the baby peeing (for example) is moving, which is not true, as the baby is stationary.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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