Subject: Re: [lojban] Auxlang sentences and lujvo

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:22:20 -0500

At 07:35 PM 11/15/01 +0100, G. Dyke wrote:
>Lee:
>
>Seems like an interesting exercise.
>
>1. The big house was full of books.
>
> Don't see much interesting here:
> *{le barda zdadi'u pu culno lo xelcku}
>
>**loi... they must be mighty books if the house is full of each of them...
>
>*{ti verba selpinxe},
>
>*ie

Actually, on thinking about the many replies that have been posted, this 
sentence is more problematic than it appears. Compare with:

"The big cup was full of water".
le barda kabri pu culno loi djacu

It seems unlikely that the English "is full of" when referring to books 
means that same as "is full of" when referring to water. Rather, we would 
tend to use the phrase merely to mean that the house contains an 
extraordinarily large quantity of books.

It was interesting that every single Auxlang translation of the sentence 
mimicked the English idiomatic usage. (For those who native speakers of 
other languages, does your language match the English idiom in a sentence 
like this?)

lojbab
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