Re: [lojban] Re: CLL and modern Lojban

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  Ah, to "detusk".  That was totally not in google translate's worldview.  Thanks

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, <sukender1@gmail.com> wrote:

Hum, my translations are veeeeery approximate, but that may mean:

Seeing the elephant being imprisoned by the hunters...

1. ...he defended him (...da pu bandu le xanto)

2. ...he took his tusk (...da pu lebna lo bacyde'i po'e le xanto)

Because "prendre la défense de" is both an _expression_ meaning "to defend", and a way to say "to take (away) the elephant tusk" (~"tooth")

Le vendredi 10 novembre 2017 15:35:55 UTC+1, gejyspa a écrit :

• "Voyant l'éléphant prisonnier des braconniers, il prit sa défense" => Here the word "défense" has multiple meanings

  I am not a francophone, and Google translate was at best unclear.  I'm guessing the polysemy here is:

fau lo nu ga'a mi zerkalte lo xanto kei ku mi badgau (lo xanto lo zerkalte se pi'o lo celxa'i mu'a)

vs.

fau lo nu ga'a mi zerkalte lo xanto kei ku mi badgau (lo'i xanto lo nu cmaze'a lo ka klani) 

 (which, if true, means the same polysemy exists in lojban, although I could have used "...stogau lo ni xanto",  I suppose, in the second case.)

           --gejyspa

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