Natural example of "le"

[.arpis.]

I've been away from lojban for years now. I'm posting because I ran into what I think is a cool bit of expressivity in "le" vs "lo". My wife asked me to boil water and make her some tea; when I asked which tea, she responded with "'Candy' or 'magic'." These are not names of the teas, but just ways we refer to them. I think this would translate well as "le titspi" and "le makfa", and that those would be more faithful than using "la".

Thoughts?

[Michael Turniansky]

  FWIW, I agree.

  --gejyspa

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:08 PM, .arpis. <rpglover...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been away from lojban for years now. I'm posting because I ran into what I think is a cool bit of expressivity in "le" vs "lo". My wife asked me to boil water and make her some tea; when I asked which tea, she responded with "'Candy' or 'magic'." These are not names of the teas, but just ways we refer to them. I think this would translate well as "le titspi" and "le makfa", and that those would be more faithful than using "la".

Thoughts?

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[Alex Rozenshteyn]

Now I'm wondering if there's a way to translate "Are 'magic' and 'candy' magic and candy, respectively?" I thought I could use termsets, but <za'a ju'o cu'i> you can't put selbri in a termset. <.i xu le makfa cu makfa .ije le titspi cu titspi> sounds more redundant.

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:43 PM Michael Turniansky <mturn...@gmail.com> wrote:

  FWIW, I agree.

  --gejyspa

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:08 PM, .arpis. <rpglover...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been away from lojban for years now. I'm posting because I ran into what I think is a cool bit of expressivity in "le" vs "lo". My wife asked me to boil water and make her some tea; when I asked which tea, she responded with "'Candy' or 'magic'." These are not names of the teas, but just ways we refer to them. I think this would translate well as "le titspi" and "le makfa", and that those would be more faithful than using "la".

Thoughts?

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[Adam Lopresto]

.i xu le makfa fa'u le titspi cu makfa fa'u titspi

[Alex Rozenshteyn]

ki'e sai .i .ue mi gasfli zo fa'u