From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Thu Mar 18 04:47:03 1999
X-Digest-Num: 90
Message-ID: <44114.90.517.959273824@eGroups.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:47:03 +0200
From: Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Always the same?

Zeno wrote:
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> If someone could show
> that Lojban is useable by the average human and can survive realistic
> practical and playful abuse of real-world users, Bill Gates would mail
> a few mil to the copyright holders that afternoon, and we would all be
> chatting happily with our computers inside of three months. (You put
> that phrase in the same sentence as "Lojban", so don't blame me for
> the retort.)

zo'o .aucainai .i pe'i lenu la maikrysaft. sarji la lojban. ka'e rinka lenu lei
prenu .e lei skami cu frili si'uxlajmi

[humour] [desire-extreme-negative] . [opinion] {the-event-of (that-named
Microsoft) support (that-named Lojban)} can cause {the-event-of
(the-mass-of human and the-mass-of computer) easy mutually-misunderstand)}

> A man is in the mall with his gal and they look in the jewelry store
> window, and the woman says in perfect Lojban, "Ooh, what a beautiful
> necklace!". The man replies also in perfect Lojban while looking
> across the aisle at the lingerie store, "What I really like is that
> garter belt and bra set in that store over there."

le ninmu: .u'e.au melbi nebja'i

the woman: [wonder - desire] beautiful necklace

le nanmu: mi sezynelci le smoka jinsru .e le tatyta'u tu'i le tu zarci

the man: I self-like {(the stocking belt and the bra) with-site-as (the yonder
market)}

le skami pe la maikrysaft: le nebja'i .e le tatyta'u cu si'unalmapti .i pe'u ko
terve'u le samselpa me'e la'o copin.plys

the computer related-to that-named Microsoft: (the necklace and the bra)
mutually-incompatible. [please] {you-imperative buy (the program
with-name 'Shopping Plus!')}

co'o mi'e robin.