Re: Lojban

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:07:39 -0400, Bob LeChevalier
<lojbab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Padraic Brown <elemtilas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Rest snipped. I don't really care to listen to you whine. Either you
>>can produce a sensible Lojban sentence (with commentary as to how it
>>works) or you can't. The latter is obviously the case.
>
>Obviously you shouldn't snip so quickly, since your sentence was at
>the end of the text, with literal translation.

Indeed not! I apologise for that.

>.ai co'a benji co nuzba be loi vrici joi nunjvi joi tcima ca le co'a
>bavlamcacra
>[intention!] [observative] [initiation of event] transmitting of-type
>news about subjects
>various-mixed-with-events-of-competition-mixed-with-weather
>simultaneous with the [initiation of event] future-adjacent-hour

It does, thank you. You'd be amazed at how interesting such a simple
sample as your provided can be. Combined with the L dictionary on
line! If you had answered with this at the first, all would have been
satisfied and much time and effort would not have been wasted and you
could go back to translating Burton!

>I don't attach much significance to my being able to formulate such an
>expression, but apparently you do.  

I never said anything about attaching significance to your ability to
formulate a sentence in your conlang. My interest is solely in how
your conlang handles the given situation. 

>Whether this "answers the question", I cannot judge.

That interest is now satisfied, so it does indeed "answer the
question".

Padraic

>lojbab

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