On Aug 9, 2016 6:34 PM, "Pierre Abbat" <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
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> On Monday, August 08, 2016 09:37:39 Timothy Lawrence wrote:
> > pe'u ko dragau mi ki'u la lojban.na verclibau mi
> >
> > Corrigez-moi, s'il vous plaît, parce que le françias n'est pas ma langue
> > maternelle.
>
> français
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> > Please correct any of my language versions or suggest improvements - English
> > is my native language so I hope I got that one right ;)
> >
> >
> >
> > fi'i ko spuda
> >
> > Vous êtes invités à répondre.
> >
> > You are welcome to respond.
> >
> >
> >
> > coi le karni.
> >
> > i mi'e la timoteios.i mi xabju le sralygu'e.
> >
> > i ca'o le cabdei mi pu ctigau la plipe.i la plipe.cu dalpe'o mi.
> > i la plipe.cu citka le srasu ni'i la plipe.cu pipyjalra.
>
> Besides inserting "lo nu" as Bruno suggested, another way to fix the grammar is
> to connect the two bridi with "ini'ibo".
I agree. (Please don't use my first name, «la uakci» is all I want.)
>
> > i mi ze'u ciska dei.i mi ba za'u re'u ciska.
> >
> > mu'o
> >
> >
> >
> > Cher journal,
> >
> > Je m'appelle Timotheos. J'habite en Australie.
> >
> > Aujourd'hui, j'ai nourri Plipe. Plipe est mon animal de compagnie.
> > Elle mange de l'herbe parce qu'elle est un criquet.
>
> Moi, je dirais «grillon», mais «criquet» est un mot.
>
> > Cela a pris beaucoup de temps à écrire. Je vais écrire encore.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear diary,
> >
> > I am Timotheos. I live in Australia.
> >
> > Today I fed Plipe. Plipe is my pet.
> >
> > She eats grass because she is a grasshopper.
> > It took me a very long time to write this. I will write again.
>
> "But you eat all these reptile birds that walk on four and have knees higher
> than their legs to jump."
>
> grasshopper=sauterelle=pipyjalra, cricket=grillon=sagjalra; but I don't like
> "jalra" used to refer to Orthoptera because they're not closely related. The
> cockroaches and termites are now placed in the same order, so I have no
> problem with "mudyctijalra" (which could also refer to the wood-eating
> cockroach that isn't a termite), but the Orthoptera are outside the
> Dictyoptera. And what do we call katydids (which are not in the family
> Katydidae)? What sort of orthopteran does "xargolu" mean?
I don't know, but the odd, hierarchy based gismu don't seem to be any good. «jukni» warns me that I better use some other word to mean 'spider'.
— mi'e djica be lo ka ralju selcme ro jbopre no drata be zo uakci
>
> Pierre
> --
> loi mintu se ckaji danlu cu jmaji
>
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