From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sat May 20 00:59:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4677 invoked from network); 20 May 2000 07:59:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 May 2000 07:59:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 20 May 2000 07:59:07 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA29863 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 03:58:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200005200758.DAA29863@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lisri In-Reply-To: Message from "Jorge Llambias" of "Sat, 13 May 2000 15:44:36 PDT." <20000513224436.86752.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 03:58:53 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell >ny jgari le sigvau lei molctebi noi kandi xunre le sigvau == the cigar container, but why would N be holding that in eir mouth? >le sigdanmo ga'ufa'a sirji le jelca sigyfa'o le mokca be le nu preja lo >kalsa Congratulations. I just had my first experience of literary awe WRT a sentence in lojban. That was _beautiful_. IMO, the beauty is in the underlying expectation of logic: expecting a description of relationship of movement, specifically to a 'point' in the physics/math sense, 'le nu preja lo kalsa' comes completely by surprise. Anyone who says that lojban can't express subtle thought because it's logical hasn't played with it enough. >i le se pensi be ny darno Are you sure you didn't mean le se pensi be ny cu darno ? The parser finds no bridi in your version. >la pedrot tolcanci le ragve be le barja galjbu gi'e >punji lo kabri gy gi'e masno tisygau ky lo xunre vanju It was only here that I realized what 'ny' reffered to, because I was trying to deal with 'gy'. I thought 'ny' was someone whose name started with N., not nescessarily 'le ninmu'. Oops. >i lu do terpreti ma le du'u xukau ri ba fasnu li'u Is the 'ri' here referring to the 'ma'? If so, seems like an odd choice; why not just say ma? >to ba di'a ranji toi Glad to hear it; wonderful so far. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. ... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_