Re: Trans: Shoeflower Nose Man (Vyh)

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:19:06 +0100, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

>En réponse à Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>:
>
>> If I find the person who lifted my trees,
>> I'm going to make him sing his quiet words using his torch.
>
>:)) I like the nonsense of this sentence :) .
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>[snip translation]
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>Interesting, a or... or construction for if... then.
Note that negation is required in the condition (an original negative
becomes positive). I don't know if any natlang does this but least one
other conlang that I've seen does something similar and IIRC the lojban
'if' is derived from 'or' + negative.
BTW, I recently noticed that my relay translation had this wrong (the 2nd
error so far).

Jeff

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[snip]
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>Christophe.
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