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Robin Lee Powell wrote:

>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?)
>
Actually, the borg communicate by sending encrypted Lojban to each other 
over their transponders or whatever their radio-thingies are called.

Incidentally, Vulcan speak a dialect of Lojban without the emotional 
parts of selma'o UI.

.u'i mi'e maik.