From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Tue Feb 2 06:59:55 1999 X-Digest-Num: 50 Message-ID: <44114.50.190.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:59:55 +0200 From: Robin Turner > > > By the way, I studied Chinese for a year when I was at university - I found the > > grammar really easy but could never remember the vocabulary. > > Oh.. No.. The grammar is never easy, since you would never know if you > get it right or wrong. True of most isolating languages with flexible syntax, I should think. There again, I'm never sure if I've got my Lojban grammar right or wrong until Jorge corrects it ;-) > > > my mind now are a few sentences like "Women duo hen dao duanlian" and > > "Tongzhemen! Zhanxilai!" - our textbooks were written during the Cultural > > Revolution! > > Some minor errata. But quite dramacomic. :-) > I don't understand the first sentence and I cannot guess it. And the > second should be "Tongzhimen! Zhanqilai!" (Comrades! Debout!) > The first sentence was meant to be "We all, very early, do-physical-training". As I said, it was a looong time ago! co'o mi'e robin.