[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-23 Thread Jorge Llambías
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Michael Turniansky wrote: > >  We crossposted, but as I mentioned in my last note, the utterance > _as a whole_ doesn't parse, because the li'u wasn't actually, elided, > but existed at the end of the second paragraph. Officially, there was an elided first "li'u"

[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Turniansky
2009/9/23 Jorge Llambías : > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Michael Turniansky > wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:35:55 Ryan Leach wrote: >>> > lu mi pu tirna da'e ra'i da'e goi mi pa'upatfu .ije mi pa'upatfu go'e >>> > .ij

[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-23 Thread Jorge Llambías
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Michael Turniansky wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: >> >> On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:35:55 Ryan Leach wrote: >> > lu mi pu tirna da'e ra'i da'e goi mi pa'upatfu .ije mi pa'upatfu go'e >> > .ije do'i rapli nu so'i pano nanca .i >

[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Turniansky
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 23 September 2009 08:52:20 Michael Turniansky wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: >> > On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:35:55 Ryan Leach wrote: >> > > lu mi pu tirna da'e ra'i da'e goi mi pa'upatfu .ij

[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 23 September 2009 08:52:20 Michael Turniansky wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:35:55 Ryan Leach wrote: > > > lu mi pu tirna da'e ra'i da'e goi mi pa'upatfu .ije mi pa'upatfu go'e > > > .ije do'i rapli nu so'i pano nanc

[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Turniansky
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 9/18/2009 13:23:03 Eastern Daylight Time, > ivo.d...@gmail.com writes: > > > 2009/9/18  : >> What's an English literal version of the same? >> >> stevo > > Wiktionary is your friend: > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bark_up_the_wrong_tre

[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Turniansky
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:35:55 Ryan Leach wrote: > > lu mi pu tirna da'e ra'i da'e goi mi pa'upatfu .ije mi pa'upatfu go'e > > .ije do'i rapli nu so'i pano nanca .i > > I was stumped by the first sentence, but it parses. It means "«