Re: [lojban] le bilma cinfo

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Friday, October 18, 2013 07:57:37 Lormoral King wrote:
> Hello, it's me again.
> 
> After having gone through the CLL (skipping some difficult parts), I
> decided to translate a short story to practice my new knowledge. It's a
> fable called The Sick Lion. Please let me know how well I did.
> 
> le bilma cinfo
> 
> i pa cinfo noi ke'a mutce tolcitno seri'a lenu le cinfo na kakne lenu bapli
> cpacu loi cidja cu jdice lenu tcica cpacu i ra xrukla le ri zdani gi'e
> vreta gi'e jifkritrazu'e leka ri bilma kei gi'e gasnu lenu leka ri bilma cu

I think "leka ri bilma kei" means "that his *den* was sick", but I'm not sure. 
Does "ri" refer to the last sumti completed or to the last started sumti that 
is complete?

> gubni se djuno i lei danlu cusku leka kecti ije ro le go'i cu nonkansa

.i lei danli cu cusku .i na ka'e cusku lo ka co'e .i ka'e cusku lo sedu'u co'e

> klama le zdani be le cinfo be'o noi le cinfo cu vlile citka le danlu i ba
> lenu so'i lei danlu pu simsa canci le lorxu cu sanli co bartu le kevna gi'e
> retsku lejei le cinfo cu kanro kei le cinfo i le cinfo cu spuda lu mi no'e
> kanro i ku'i ki'u ma do sanli co bartu le kevna i e'ocai ko nerkla le kevna
> tezu'e lenu tavla mi li'u i le lorxu cu cusku lu na go'i ki'e i mi cfaga'e
> ledu'u so'i jamfu prina cu nerkla ledo kevna i ku'i mi na viska le sinxa be
> ledu'u xrukla li'u
> 
> i prije fa le se kajde be le xlali be le drata

Looks pretty good and much better than some stuff I've seen from rank 
beginners. If you just drop the other cu in there, it parses. I'd say "lo" 
several times you said "le", but which article to use is partly a matter of 
Sprachgefühl.

Pierre
-- 
When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates.
Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.

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