From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 13 14:59:25 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AgXVN-0005Oj-4q for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:59:25 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:59:25 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Seasons' Greetings Message-ID: <20040113225925.GA20538@digitalkingdom.org> References: <7a.4ec04b08.2d35b769@aol.com> <4004731F.2060006@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4004731F.2060006@nc.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 465 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:37:19PM -0500, Travis Garris wrote: > I was orginally asking regardless of clutural neutrality. True, > I'm not a Christian, and as such, don't celebrate Christmas in the > tuest since. But I am American, and I am a relatively new father, > so I must admit, Christmas is so much fun. So, how would you say > "Happy Christ's Birthday" literally, in Lojban? I've seen a couple options, but I don't remember them, so here's mine: .a'o gleki le xisterjbedei > To keep it simple, just say northern and southern solstice, which > probably translates quite easily. Umm, which one? There are two. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui