Thanks for the swift response.
Hmm...first, I don't quite see why it's "lo" here. To me if you can give
something a name (which in this case I can, though I won't for privacy
reasons) le is definitely warranted. But of course I'm here because I'm a
beginner, so I could be wrong; can you explain why lo seems fitting to you?
Second, I think I can see using sisti. That (if I understand it correctly)
implies that the school (as an agent) stops doing something, the "something"
in this case being obvious: the education process of the students. This is a
slightly different concept from a school "being closed", but it seems like a
fairly good approximation. It's at least an improvement over se ganlo, which
seems somewhat limited.
However, using se fanmo to me seems like it opens up some problems. It's
quite possible that this is just malglico, but based on the place structure
of ckule (in particular the location being x2), it seems that the x1 place
of ckule is not the school process, but the institution. Thus using se
fanmo, which seems to imply that ckule is a process, seems...odd. Of course,
I have not seen fanmo in usage, so I could be wrong as above.
mu'omi'e latros.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Minimiscience <minimiscie...@gmail.com>wrote:
> de'i li 07 pi'e 02 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Ian Johnson .fy. cusku zoi
> skamyxatra.
> > In this case, the school that my friend, whom I'll call "Cat", attends is
> > closing down. My first attempt at translating this was:
> > le la mlatus. ckule cu se ganlo
> > When I went back and re-translated this, I got more or less "Cat's school
> is
> > prevented access to". (The poor English being needed to keep "Cat's
> school"
> > in the subject, as far as I can see.) This isn't quite right, though;
> her
> > school is a place, but it is also an organization, one which will not
> > continue to exist after it closes down. And I don't easily see a way to
> > describe this idea. Do you all have any ideas?
> .skamyxatra
>
> "{lo la mlatus. ckule cu sisti}"? "{lo la mlatus. ckule cu se fanmo}"?
>
> mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
>
> --
> va'o lonu da'i noda va bartu kei ma pu va savru
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