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Subject: "common" words
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" <Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de>

Recently, I translated an old Chinese text to English - not too difficult, =
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but trying to do the same with Lojban, I'm having problems with very=20
common terms like: "There was...", "One day..." etc. Could you please assis=
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t?

(Here is my first part...)

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Where to find an intimate friend
pa se slabu bele zgike pe le pendo po'u le selsau pendo cu te facki vi ma
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Lieh-tzu - T'ang Wen Chung Chi Tsai

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There was a man named Po-ya who knew to play the Ch'in very well.
puzu zasti fa pa nanmu noi se cmene zoi gy. Po-ya gy. po'u la bo,ias. goi k=
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o'a .i ko'a mutce kakne le nu zgizu'e la=20
tcin.
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His friend Chung Tzu-ch'i would listen to the Ch'in and be able to perfectl=
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y comprehend its playing.
.i le ko'a pendo noi se cmene zoi gy. Chung Tzu-ch'i gy. po'u la djun,dz,tc=
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is. goi ko'e cu mutce kakne le nu zgatirna=20
le la tcin. zgike

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One day when Po-ya was playing the Ch'in, Chung Tzu-ch'i sat beside him, li=
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stening in silence to the music.
ca lo faudje ku ko'a ca zgizu'e la tcin. .ije ko'e tsela'i ko'a ca lenu sma=
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ji tinju'i...

.aulun.