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Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: translation challenge: "If today is Monday..."
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:33:58 +0100
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From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com>

tinkit:
> --- In lojban@y..., "And Rosta" <a.rosta@n...> wrote:
> > Translate into Lojban:
> > 
> > 1. If today is Monday, then tomorrow is Tuesday.
> 
> ti'u lo djedi poi pa moi lo'i jeftu ku'o le balvi lamji djedi cu [dunli]
> lo djedi poi re moi lo'i jetfu

"There is a monday, x, and a tuesday, y, such that at time x, 
each of certain next days is equal, in some property, to y"

... not that great as a translation... 

Note that's it's fairly easy to say "Every monday is immediately
followed by a tuesday", or suchlike. I'm asking for a reasonably
faithful rendition of the original, though.

--And.