History: Hokahe! - Le anpetu kin mat'e kin waste ktelo!

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The Lakota term _hoka he_ is an interjection usually meaning "welcome!". In a historical context, it's been used as a battle cry - later(?) romantically paraphrased in English as "Today's a good day to die!" On demand, we have tried to render the English phrase in Lakota; one of our choices (close to a Native speaker's version) came out as:

Le anpetu kin mat'e kin waste ktelo!
this day - I die - it will be good - man's statement


Here are at least some of the possibilities to render the phrase in Lojban:

lenu mi cabdei mrobi'o cu xamgu
le cabdei cu djedi co xamgu fi lenu mi mrobi'o
le cabdei cu djedi co xamgu mi lenu mrobi'o
le cabdei cu xamgu be mi bei lenu mrobi'o kei djedi
le cabdei cu xamgu be lenu mi mrobi'o kei djedi
le ca/vi djedi cu xamgu mi lenu mrobi'o
ti xamgu befi lenu mi mrobi'o be'o djedi
ti djedi co xamgu mi lenu mrobi'o
ti djedi co xamgu fi lenu mi mrobi'o
ti nu mi mrobi'o kei xamgu djedi

Hopefully, the Lojban examples are grammatical. Do you have other versions in Lojban for my inspiration? — .aulun.

pc: You might want to add a marker for "man statement" — not a category that Lojban recognizes, but probably something like "usually reliable source" (which is also not quite in Lojban) or a related evidential. Or this may be a kind of machismo boast, closer to {ei} or {e'u}.

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