From Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de Mon Aug 12 05:53:28 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 12 Aug 2002 12:53:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 91361 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2002 12:53:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Aug 2002 12:53:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO spree.gedas.de) (139.1.44.12) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Aug 2002 12:53:27 -0000 Received: from spree.gedas.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spree.gedas.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28658 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:53:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from blnsem05.de.gedas.vwg (blnsem05.gedas.de [139.1.84.49]) by spree.gedas.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28651; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:53:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by blnsem05.de.gedas.vwg with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3W819XSV>; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:53:24 +0200 Message-ID: To: "'John Cowan'" Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] nolraitru Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:53:20 +0200 Return-Receipt-To: "Newton, Philip" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Newton, Philip" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=23036112 X-Yahoo-Profile: elder_newton John Cowan wrote: > > Newton, Philip scripsit: > > > > How would you expand "nolraitru" (meaning "king") into a tanru? > > > > The obvious "nobli traji turni" doesn't make sense to me, > > since that is "(nobli traji) turni", i.e. "(noble type-of > > superlative) type-of governor". > > That's exactly what it means: among all noble (=high-ranking by birth) > governors, the king is the noblest. OK. I was confused by the turn of idiom, since Lojban seems to put it the other way around from English (nobly superlative or superlative in nobleness, rather than superlatively noble). mu'omi'e filip. [email copies appreciated, since I read the digest] {ko fukpi mrilu .i'o fi mi ki'u le du'u mi te mrilu loi notseljmaji} -- Philip Newton All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.