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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:49:19 -0500
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> Why is it translated that way? Shouldn't it be {lo mlatu pe la tcecir}?
>

That's more of a mouthful, this is a stylistic choice, and it's a cute play
on words; it also loses little since the idiom that may have sparked the
name is long dead and wouldn't have translated into lojban anyway.

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mu'o mi'e .arpis.

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