Subject: Re: [lojban] love at first sight..

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:43:23

>a: ju'i {trying to say "excuse me..."}
>b: je'e {"yes?"/acknowlegement}

Very nice.

> .i ma do nilsau {trying to say "how old are you?"}

i do ma nanca

>b: tu'a mi nanca li rebi {the phrasebook said this is bad translation?}

Not bad, just unnecessarily clumsy in my opinion.

>a: .a'u
>b: mi pensi lenu do melbi

That's "I'm pondering your beauty", which may or may not be what
you meant to say. {mi jinvi le du'u do melbi} is the more banal
"I think you're pretty".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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