7. Captions to Pictures

The following examples list the Lojban caption, with a translation, for the picture at the head of each chapter. If a chapter’s picture has no caption, “(none)” is specified instead.

• The picture for chapter 1 has the following text:

  coi lojban.             coi rodo

  which has the following translation:

  Greetings, O Lojban!    Greetings, all-of you

• The picture for chapter 2 has no text.

• The picture for chapter 3 has the following text:

  .i .ai .i .ai .o

  which has the following translation:

  [untranslatable]

• The picture for chapter 4 has the following text:

  jbobliku

  which has the following translation:

  Lojbanic-blocks

• The picture for chapter 5 has no text.

• The picture for chapter 6 has the following text:

  lei re nanmu cu bevri le re nanmu

  which has the following translation:

  The-mass-of two men carry the two men
Two men (jointly) carry two men (both of them).

• The picture for chapter 7 has the following text:

  ma drani danfu
.i di'e
.i di'u
.i dei
.i ri
.i do'i


  which has the following translation:

  [What sumti] is-the-correct type-of-answer?
The-next-sentence.
The-previous-sentence.
This-sentence.
The-previous-sentence.
An-unspecified-utterance.

• The picture for chapter 8 has the following text:

  ko viska re prenu poi bruna la santas.

  which has the following translation:

  [You!] see two persons who-are brothers-of Santa.

• The picture for chapter 9 has no text.

• The picture for chapter 10 has the following text:

  za'o klama

  which has the following translation:

  [superfective] come/go
Something goes (or comes) for too long.

• The picture for chapter 11 has the following text:

  le si'o kunti

  which has the following translation:

  The concept-of emptiness

• The picture for chapter 12 has no text.

• The picture for chapter 13 has the following text:

  .oi ro'i ro'a ro'o

  which has the following translation:

  [Pain!] [emotional] [social] [physical]

• The picture for chapter 14 has no text.

• The picture for chapter 15 has the following text:

  mi na'e lumci le karce

  which has the following translation:

  I other-than wash the car
I didn’t wash the car.

• The picture for chapter 16 has the following text:

  drata mupli pe'u .djan.

  which has the following translation:

  another example [please] John
Another example, John, please!

• The picture for chapter 17 has the following text:

  zai xanlerfu by. ly. .obu .jy by. .abu ny.

  which has the following translation:

  [Shift] hand-letters l o j b a n
"Lojban" in a manual alphabet

• The picture for chapter 18 has the following text:

  no no

  which has the following translation:

  0 0

• The picture for chapter 19 has no text.

• The picture for chapter 20 has no text.

• The picture for chapter 21 has no text.