From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Feb 02 16:47:40 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:48:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F4p6y-0003TB-0T for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:47:40 -0800 Received: from ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.196] helo=mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F4p6u-0003T3-Et for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:47:39 -0800 Received: from 203-214-12-107.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO [192.168.1.254]) ([203.214.12.107]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 03 Feb 2006 08:47:29 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== From: Arran To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A lujvo for "oblom" Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:46:02 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <694780021.20060202182629@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <694780021.20060202182629@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602031146.02705.arran4@arran4.homeip.net> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3037 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arran4@arran4.homeip.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners lo suksa fatci djuno lo suksa fatci jimpe lo djica tolza'i suksa jimpe Just my guess(es.) On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:26 pm, Yanis Batura wrote: > There's a russian word "oblom" (modern russian slang) meaning: > > nu da suksa jimpe lodu'u de na lakne kei ca loza'i da denpa je djica de > > "The event of someone suddenly understands that something is > impossible, while he was waiting for and desiring that something". > > An example of "oblom" may be when a boy and a girl are going to kiss > (substitute for anything you like), but suddenly her parents come > home. And there will be an "oblom" for the boy, at least. > > Any ideas for a lujvo? ;) > > Yanis Batura -- -4 A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.