From phma@oltronics.net Tue Jan 23 18:08:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_1_2); 24 Jan 2001 02:08:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 73202 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2001 01:46:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 24 Jan 2001 01:46:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.7) by mta2 with SMTP; 24 Jan 2001 01:46:53 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 40B053C55C; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:46:45 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Babylon 5 (TV show) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:45:15 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20010123173448.E16638@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010123173448.E16638@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012320464403.25635@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:07:33PM -0700, EWC wrote: >> Someone recently posted a translation of the Babylon 5 (a sci-fi TV >> show) opening sequence in Loglan, so I just had to try in Lojban. Here >> it is: > >Here's some commentary, with the original prepended for those who don't >know it: > >It was the year of fire. >> .i pu nanca co fagri > >The year of destruction. >> .i nanca co daspo > >I'd use le nu despo for 'destruction'. I think the first sentence needs a "ki", else the rest of it has lost its tense. phma