From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sat May 27 11:51:19 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7245 invoked from network); 27 May 2000 18:51:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 May 2000 18:51:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qg.egroups.com) (10.1.2.27) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 May 2000 18:51:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 18846 invoked from network); 27 May 2000 18:51:19 -0000 Received: from n1.onelist.org (HELO hh.egroups.com) (10.1.10.40) by iqg.egroups.com with SMTP; 27 May 2000 18:51:19 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.94] by hh.egroups.com with NNFMP; 27 May 2000 18:51:18 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 18:49:22 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: coi rodo - mi'e .aulun. Message-ID: <8gp5bi+i25b@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <392FD495.1F3C@math.bas.bg> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 473 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._T=FCting?=" Ivan, > {do na finpe} vs {do na du mi} does not quite get across the > parallelism of the original, which had, I take it, something > like _ni3 bu4shi4 yu2_ vs _ni3 bu4shi4 wo3_. you're right: the original is "zi3 fei1 yu2" - "zi3 fei1 wo3" (Big5: =A4l=ABD=B3=BD=A1X=A4l=ABD=A7=DA) in ancient Chinese. (You can find a graphic text in 'Files'). I tried to post some remarks on writing Chinese cmene - yet failed somehow (maybe sent the message only to xorxes.) Alfred