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janKipo wrote:Maybe 'suli' is part of the solution, but then we have only one opposite to both it and 'mute,' 'lili'.

The only solution I can see is: 'suli - lili', 'mute - mute lili'.

just say simply, he was a son of meli sewi Ninsun and jan lawa Lugalbanda Right. Longer context to make sure that "ona" is unambigous: jan Kikamesi li utala sama soweli wawa. ona li pakala e sinpin kiwen. ona li lawa e kulupu pi jan utala ona. ona li jan lawa. jan seme li ken sama e ona? ...

I'm having trouble figuring out how someone can be 2/3 god and 1/3 human The simpliest method of saying "more god than human". 'ona li toki tawa jan mama Alulu e ni' the grammar puts prepositional phrases modifying the whole after the object 'e ni tawa mama Alulu' but I am not sure how fi...

The stuff before 'la' is in a muddle. I would read 'tenpo mute pini' as "a long time ago" and 'tenpo mute' alone as "for a long time," or as "often," but others seem to do it other ways and there is no clear place that I have found to lay it all out. It makes sense, to...

'kili li lon sewi palisa' "a poley high thing" or 'palisa sewi' " a high pole"? This was supposed to mean: "kili was on the top of palisa". ('li lon sewi pi palisa'???) But "on a high pole" (palisa sewi) is unambigous. 'ona li tawa monsi li toki e ni: "k...

jan sewi Alulu li pali e sijelo pi jan Kikamesi. Enlil's sister(?), Aruru, also known as Ninhursag. mama sewi Aruru li pali ala e jan Gilgamesh. ona li pali e jan Enkidu tawa ni: jan E li ken utala e jan G. "mama sewi Aruru" is a good idea, thank you. Aruru was someway (licentia poetica?)...

jan-ante wrote:these are la li o e pi. and this is really a good chance, because these symbols should be graphically distinct from the rest of vocabulary. so, one can use the symbols | > !< { respectively

Good choice, although >< could be inconvenient in XML languages.

о всё видавшем.. o! sina sona. jan sewi Alulu li pali e sijelo pi jan Kikamesi. whom do you mean? Enlil? Enlil's sister(?), Aruru, also known as Ninhursag. jan Kikamesi li kama jo mije. jan Kikamesi li kama jo e mije. here i have a strong temptation to use "kulupu" as a transitive verb So...

jan Kikamesi. jan lawa pi ma tomo Uluku tomo Uluku li lon. sinpin pi ma tomo Uluku li sewi li suli. sinpin ni li kiwen. tomo Enana li tomo pi jan sewi Inana. sinpin pi tomo Enana li kiwen. sinpin ni li walo sama suno. o tawa tomo pi jan sewi Inana! o lukin! jan ante li pali ala e tomo sama. jan law...

Thank you.