Subject: Re: [lojban] Sentence translation

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 04:33:44

la camgusmis cusku di'e

>"Get off my car or I'll crack your head open with this baseball bat."
>
>.o'onai ko na zutse lo mi karce seki'unai lo nu porpi le do stedu pi'o
>lo barda grana

(porpi -> popygau; pi'o -> sepi'o)

>Does seki'unai do what I want? Any other ways to handle it?

No, {seki'unai} is "nevertheless". I would say:

o'onai ko na zutse le mi karce i va'o na'e bo la'e di'u
mi popygau le do stedu sepi'o lo barda grana

{va'o na'e bo la'e di'u} is awfully long for "otherwise",
but the alternative (something with jo/ja) I try to avoid.

{la'e di'u} should be a one syllable cmavo, it is extremely
frequent. (Perhaps {lau}, once its old meaning becomes obsolete
for lack of use.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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