Subject: Re: How do you feel about this new usage?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:50:43 -0000

(english, because it's about lojban.)

--- In lojban@y..., Invent Yourself <xod@s...> wrote:
> ganai le jei le glico cu jai bau darlu kei cu pabdu'i le jei le 
nundarlu
> bi'unai cu zasti gi li'a le bangu cu vajni
> 
> Instead of le nunbroda cu rinka le nunbrode, I prefer le jezbroda 
(is
> proportional to) le jezbrode.
> 
> pabdu'i = proportional. Is there a better lujvo?

this is one of those gismu we need to get when we kick out the 
cultural gismu/rafsi! anyways, that's pretty good. i think you're 
really trying to say "x1 x2 dunli/simsa le ka parbi". the 
tanru/lujvo just sort of abbreviates that.

> 
> 
> -- 
> It's said that Mullah Omar has met two non-Muslims in his life. 
Others say
> even that's not true.
> 
> Sami ul-Haq, Osama bin Laden's closest friend in Pakistan, runs the
> "University for the Education of Truth," a fundamentalist 
institution that
> educated and trained nine out of the Taliban's top 10 leaders.