From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Oct 29 09:37:14 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvE2j-0002UO-EI for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:37:14 -0700 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvE2d-0002Tq-7n for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:37:13 -0700 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so104779fga.0 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:37:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=Gf/eHBwabuKPPp69pPXE/oPHA3IkgP9022nFm+hNROw=; b=cUSMsSgPo91ajuKjj/Nul8nE/hpMqVeg5fahoO/lKQ0wZfsUmFaglRv+YaNTWu+MzA 4jPRCS5nZgRptQN7PQBs7YjKoJS1rE/5aE1c6zCEWdtuWrEepK8jtKVwspHTKLcdHjqe NgK+4RO3WxJQVpvWaUou5ods0W3Ia1aVKI/Lo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=uvzt5oQKMcfD0zR9P+dlF+BLkPkrBexSw88VqvLhabo7XWd2XjthdoyWVkBjjlzMie uUoQofnr31yUEELWeCTKP2B0DUUAO/WPFmHwJxo1FVDpYBgg+dBV3l8iqO8xMPb20nU3 OzbyeCNqAln1nPwVWQKNLghBSVWKL834qg8kY= Received: by 10.181.152.14 with SMTP id e14mr2460142bko.189.1225298225330; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.181.47.2 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4de8c3930810290937q7d6436daw557a7dc8ce386e8a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:37:05 +0100 From: tijlan To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] "I gotta go feed my baby turtles" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 78778bacffc07975 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 952 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners from http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/288241.html "There is an artificial language called Lojban which is based on predicate logic. It was created to form a language in which it is impossible to form an ambiguous sentence. That's a bit of a shame as it would eliminate so much humor." Do we have any workaround to retain as much humor in Lojban as in English in terms of ambiguity?