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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:33:57PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> How would I say, "Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg" in Lojban?
>
> la lojban na vulkan. e borg.

There are rather a lot of errors in that sentence.  It has no
selbri, and names (like vulkan and borg) must have la or doi in
front of them.

How about:

la .lojban. na mintu la .vulkan. .a la .borg.

(the borg have a language?)

To mirror your original structure you could also do:

la .lojban. na me la .vulkan. gi'a na me la .borg.

-Robin

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