Subject: RE: [lojban] Broken Phone, round 2

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:38:06 +0100

Xod:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, And Rosta wrote:
> > Pierre:
> > > Evgueni: fau le nu do cuxna kei ko ciska mrilu fi mi'a poi tavla
> >
> > Xod's version of Evgeny:
> > If you choose, send mail to we who speak.
> >
> > > And: ro ba'oi tu'odu'u do cuxna tu'odu'u se mrilu cei bu'a do ma'a
> > > poi tavla cu bu'a ko
> > > I'd have to see what Xod wrote to figure out where this verbosity
> > > came from.
> >
> > if ro ba'oi tu'odu'u
> > you do
> > choose cuxna
> > that tu'odu'u
> > mail se mrilu cei bu'a
> > you do
> > us ma'a
> > who poi
> > speak tavla
> > do so cu bu'a
> > IMPER ko
> >
> > -- There's no greater verbosity than in Xod's version, except what
> > verbosity Lojban makes mandatory.
>
> ganai do djica gi ko mrilu fi le mi'a tavla

"Either don't desire something or send mail to our talkers"

-- a pretty duff translation, and it achieves a slight reduction in verbosity
only by omitting information (about x2 of djica & relation
between mi'a and tavla). If we take that strategy then we could do
a helsem and say it as "djica tavla mrilu".

--And.