From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 07 04:47:03 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:47:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HEmCV-00064F-26 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:47:03 -0800 Received: from mclmx.mail.saic.com ([149.8.64.10]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HEmCP-00063o-O3 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:47:02 -0800 Received: from 0015-its-ieg02.mail.saic.com ([149.8.64.21] [149.8.64.21]) by mclmx.mail.saic.com for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:46:37 -0500 Received: from 0015-its-exbh02.us.saic.com ([10.43.229.22]) by 0015-its-ieg02.mail.saic.com (SMSSMTP 4.0.5.66) with SMTP id M2007020707463727093 for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:46:37 -0500 Received: from 0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com ([10.75.0.188]) by 0015-its-exbh02.us.saic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:46:37 -0500 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lo xajmi Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:46:37 -0500 Message-Id: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7B7A@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> In-Reply-To: <23dc8c770702061626o5a29560ai1265532fab78173e@mail.gmail.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [lojban-beginners] Re: lo xajmi Thread-Index: AcdKTvicRl1DNjAkRfO/bslVG+XtsAAZu65w From: "Turniansky, Michael" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2007 12:46:37.0844 (UTC) FILETIME=[01D2BD40:01C74AB6] X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4020 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Despite appearances, and the necessity for it to be humorous, "single" is a lojban word, not an English one. Go from there... --gejyspa -----Original Message----- From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Karl Naylor Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:26 PM To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lo xajmi .i .uanai .ei mi te preti .i mi fanva le xajmi fu zoi kuot. What justifies the continuing state of none of those who have sex being married? They are single .kuot .i xu ri drani .i mi ca'o na'e jimpe fi le xajmi to mi gleki lenu do spuda bau la lojban. a le glico toi ~~~ OK, I have to ask. I translated the joke (rather literally) as "What justifies the continuing state of none of those who have sex being married? They are single." -- is that right? I still don't really get the joke. On 06/02/07, Turniansky, Michael wrote: > WARNING: THE FOLLOWING LOJBAN/ENGLISH JOKE CONTAINS ADULT SUBJECT MATTER. > YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED: > Q: ma krinu le za'i no lo tigni be lo nu cinse cu speni > A: .i ty du single