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Re: Dreams (messages copied from Loglanists list)
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 14:43:38 -0400
> From: John Cowan <cowan%SNARK.THYRSUS.COM@FINHUTC.hut.fi>
> Subject: Dreams (messages copied from Loglanists list)
> Of course, the whole notion that what MLK had was a {senva} is plain silly.
> He had a {panca}, or maybe even a {terzukte}. A reasonable, if essentialist,
> translation might be:
>
> mi ckaji le nu panca
>
Departing altogether from an attempt of a literal translation
and starting from the context of a speech (and allowing for
a little bit of vagueness) we can express it very emphatically
in Lojban with a single word:
se'o
I think this brings out the essence. It is possible to elaborate,
of course, but something is very easily lost in the process, pe'i.
co'o mi'e veion
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