Lojban In General

Posted by lukebergen on Sat 05 of Dec, 2009 12:19 GMT posts: 493

Also, 2:2 has the same issue as 2) below.

So, I'm finding Ruth to be a really good read and excellent practice for my
lojban skills. How can I contribute to this project?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone mentioned Ruth on the jbovlaste list so I started reading through
> it. So far I'm only up to 1:17 but I've found the following things that
> need correcting I think:
>
> 1) In verses 1 and 2 there are 3 occurrences of "xabji" where I think the
> author wanted "xabju".
> 2) In verse 8 where the author said {.i la na,oMIN cusku fi le be'aspe lu
> ...} I think they wanted {.i la na,oMIN cusku fi le be'aspe fe lu ...}
> 3) In verse 17 we have {.i .aicai noda poi na'e nunmorsi zo'u da tersepli
> mi do} I think it's going for "nothing which is not the event of death will
> separate mi from you". But really isn't it saying "nothing (other than
> death) that thing is separated from me plus some un-defined x4 place for
> {do}. In other words, doesn't {noda poi ... zo'u} take x1 which puts the
> next {da} in at x2 (causing {mi} to go to x3 and {do} to go to x4)?
>
> If I find more stuff as I read through I'll just put it in this thread.
>