From eye_onus@yahoo.com Thu Apr 24 14:49:56 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10904.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.131.40]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 198obM-0007ql-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:49:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20030424214955.61056.qmail@web10904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [132.178.218.251] by web10904.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:49:55 PDT Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:49:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon MacLeod Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A Newbie's First Impressions To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20030424050102.GV5687@miranda.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 251 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: eye_onus@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners > > There are perfectly valid sentences in English which can confuse > > native English speakers (wish I could come up with an example). > > The mouse the cat the dog bit chased died. Out of pure masochistic curiousity, what the **** does that sentence mean? -Jon (A confused native speaker of English.) ===== "I have a brain, I've just lost my mind." -Ian McLeod -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GSC>$ d+(++) s++:-- a-- C++ UL P L>+++ !E W+(++) N++ o? K- !w--- O- M@ V? PS+++ PE- Y+ PGP- t+ !5 X(+) R+ !tv-- b+++ DI+ D+ G e* h* r-(%) y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com