Whether or not it is wanted, it is a good morning.
Here's some Lojban phrases that are hard to tersely translate generally into English:
"In what regard is something stronger than something else?" Perhaps in response to an opponent bragging with mi tsamau do .i le'o ko bredi lo nu ("I am stronger than you. Get ready for--!") who was handily defeated. "And just how are you 'stronger?'" Or perhaps the title to a wacky game show where competitors have to perform random tasks better than each other with no apparent link between them; the title perhaps suggests, "What skill is being contested here?!" Maybe scientists synthesize a new material, and the higher ups are asking about manufacturing uses. "How is this stronger than other materials in this area?"
.e'o mi'o broda xi 23 lo brode xi 9 be ko'a xi 82
"Let's fit into the relationship we've assigned to number 23 in the broda series with something that fits into the relationship we've assigned to number 9 in the brode series with the argument we've assigned to number 82 in the ko'a series." This one's kind of cheating because it's entirely context-based and overly formal in the English translation. In more practical English, it'd more likely be expressed as, "Let's 'twenty-three' the one who 'nined' the 'eighty-two.'" It's not quite proper English, but it can be considered valid if the numbers represent verbs and nouns depending upon context. The original, too, is clearly speaking in code with syntactically perfect Lojban. In either case, you probably would have a hard time imagining the right number of winks which were exchanged while the phrase was being said.
Whoops, sorry. This one is much more plausible and natural, but still context-based. On its own, it isn't terribly useful; when inserted into a predicate relationship expression, it asks, "What is the third item in this relationship?" There are a few examples in which it could be spoken alone, however. If someone were to say mi sazri le cortu cabra ("I am operating the pain device."), a valid response would be fi ma ("To what end?"). Of course, with a different relationship, you'd get a different meaning: someone looking for something important in a big mess of a room frantically asking fi ma over and over may have punji in their head, which would make fi ma into, "Where was it put? Where is it? Where is it?"
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