From phma@webjockey.net Sun Jan 06 19:05:44 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 7 Jan 2002 03:05:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 21140 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2002 03:05:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Jan 2002 03:05:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 2002 03:05:42 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id CE8B03C549; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:05:41 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: le ticrai since Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:05:39 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02010622053947.20067@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 I'm translating Genesis 3 (for you who have joined recently and don't know about it, there's a Rosetta Project which is collecting Genesis 1-3, orthography, names of colors, texts with translations, and other stuff in over a thousand languages - that's what my Swadesh "lie" comment was about) and here's the first verse: 3:1. ni'o le since cu ticrai le'i foldi danlu poi se zbasu la .iaves. noi cevni .i sy cusku lu xusai le cevni cu cusku lu ro purdi tricu zo'u ko naku citka li'u li'u le ninmu As I went to the store, I thought of Eve answering: .i le ninmu cu dafsku lu le cevni cu cusku lu ro purdi tricu zo'u ko na citka li'u li'u instead of: 3:2. .i le ninmu cu dafsku lu le grute be le purdi tricu zo'u mi'a citka 3:3. .iku'i le grute be le tricu poi midju le purdi zo'i le cevni cu cusku lu ko na citka gi'e na pencu tezu'e do na mrobi'o li'u li'u By the way, is the translation of "lest" correct?