Subject: Re: [lojban] LOI PRENU GO PA MEI GI KA'E NAI TE JINGA?

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:15:35 +0000

la djan cusku di'e

> > The Lojban is symmetric, it might just as well stand
> > for "the people, defeated, will never be united" or something similar.
>
>Doesn't that follow from the original? If they are defeated, then 
>obviously
>they weren't (properly) united in the first place.

It may follow, but nobody says "el pueblo, vencido, jamás estará
unido". The temporal order matters.

I'm not objecting to the translation though, I think {lei prenu
go pa mei gi ka'e nai te jinga} is pretty good.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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