Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.213.189]:51675) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SmDU4-0001zP-Ah; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:30:21 -0700 Received: by yenl13 with SMTP id l13sf7825507yen.16 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:30:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:date:from:to:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject :mime-version:x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=PUDIqGPsM2KAqAjhFYZW0CnxBfz36gQnKIils9JpPhk=; b=nCzsptJ+fPwxB+6to5yJLZDc2z4mPqRQAkZVHZLsqPLJVeHjGGKuFh8iB3gaVm9gfP OEfVQbNU5OSNldsK1G3LoBwUUhxCdZ6BLkrrOrPRaQSNUIMIYkccSQxpyv6F3fC5rnvt PU3vG+BRc8/pNPPDqtU94eVsCdGSQlt/9vf/4= Received: by 10.68.211.6 with SMTP id my6mr756593pbc.18.1341361813606; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:30:13 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.68.211.194 with SMTP id ne2ls24470538pbc.9.gmail; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.232.230 with SMTP id tr6mr763959pbc.16.1341361811889; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:30:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Lindar To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Message-Id: <49e9a489-922a-4118-a3d2-5c1bbd7092bf@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <0e2dbe47-c06e-4c33-b7ab-61fb20aa7eda@googlegroups.com> References: <0e2dbe47-c06e-4c33-b7ab-61fb20aa7eda@googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Inflections and slang words MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: lindarthebard@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of lindarthebard@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=lindarthebard@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_181_7795673.1341361811519" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / ------=_Part_181_7795673.1341361811519 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 If you'd like to provide a great big list of expressions I can attempt to translate them. Problem is, a lot of slang relies on cultural knowledge, which doesn't really work in Lojban. "The bee's knees." makes no sense in Lojban, for example. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/ac7_4v8px0oJ. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. ------=_Part_181_7795673.1341361811519 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you'd like to provide a great big list of expressions I can attempt to t= ranslate them.
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"The bee's knees." makes no= sense in Lojban, for example.

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