From araizen@newmail.net Wed Jan 26 11:26:15 2000
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:26:15 +0200
From: araizen@newmail.net
Subject: comments about Re: Translation needed

la xorxes cusku di'e

> 
> Also, the "every day" is missing. First try:
> 
> ji'irevoki'o prenu cu mrobi'o ca ro djedi
> ri'a le nu xagji a le xagjyki'i rinka
> 
> But that says that the same 24000 people die every day!
> We need to change the order of the terms:
> 
> ca ro djedi ji'irevoki'o prenu cu mrobi'o
> ri'a le nu xagji a le xagjyki'i rinka
> 

I didn't think that the position of seltcita sumti made any difference. 
Does the book mention this? Maybe this is a more useful way to 
do it. Is there a general rule for other sentences and other sumti 
tcita?

> 
> Also there is a problem with the x2 of verba. I would not
> put "lo nanca" there. I would probably say:
> 
> i pizemu lei mrobi'o cu verba li me'imu
> 

How do we know that we're not talking about children under 5 
months? It's just possible enough that would be the case.


Adam Raizen
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