On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Romaji ####
<nxt...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again.
I'd post this on the original thread I started with, but that kinda got derailed.
I've read some of the guide who's link was posted in the other thread, and I decided to try it out, creating this example sentence:
ko pilno la skipe. tavla .i
You can't have two selbri at the same level in a bridi, what you have is ungrammatical (it breaks at tavla). Also, {.i} /begins/ a statement, it doesn't end it, so you only need it if there's going to be another statement after that one.
Or, as I hope it translates to, "[I command you to] use Skype [to] talk" or, in more fluid English "You need to use Skype to talk."
"You! use the-thing-named "skipe" <PARSE ERROR!>"
I have 2 questions here
- Is "la skipe" the proper way to refer to Skype (the service/program) in lojiban?
No. {skipe} is an undefined gismu (pronounced SKEE-peh). You want to use a cmevla, so {la.skaip.}, or possibly a fu'ivla, such as {skaipe}.
- How would you add the clause "to me" at the end of the senescence in Lojiban?
Fill the x2 place of tavla.
I'd go with {ko tavla mi sepi'o la.skaip.}: "You! talk to-me using-Skype."
Thanks in advance,
Romaji ####
mu'o mi'e .aionys.
.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )