Received: from mail-oi0-f60.google.com ([209.85.218.60]:33898) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoWj7-0001tw-Ia for lojban-list-archive@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:13:52 -0700 Received: by oiev17 with SMTP id v17sf3288935oie.1 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:13:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe; bh=oyAas7ZBkRDbDTEnAm43qbyQMrrTDfHBgMvacJiOs0U=; b=ndFnYAq8ZvJ8O2EqG1+kn5rDw88YKZaAqiZfgo2tzZZ4A+KrMgYcC0qavyY3F6OK7x UshY+7PL2Dw8sAjPyiMn76pJG1FM4yWN8J7llTajI1E84L2vntPRVLJbghWQFV2Pjha7 0WuvdJHBh9qBwjT/X2OAUVh8YtEqIdUgJvgUxNTZ2+u/2kLEBNsRF0v5IgCggwxQjg2A ZitUYO39JM3yHMwZn9yxZ220slhvVXarFJ5OcnmpSUnWIVE6d2f3lPLiy5Bhi/Gy7x4V RusWtK1PFcZ2C+XPaWadlcKP00D1+TWDcwXkmUVB/tLRVvGdm5XgTG7Z0LhzLgzdrMLf u0Yw== X-Received: by 10.140.96.2 with SMTP id j2mr42465qge.19.1445346791746; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:13:11 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.140.97.73 with SMTP id l67ls280282qge.36.gmail; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:13:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.233.208 with SMTP id e199mr2613768qhc.8.1445346791204; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.82.40 with SMTP id f8msigy; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:24:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.66.182.162 with SMTP id ef2mr27292250pac.35.1444703043125; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jerrington.me (jerrington.me. [192.99.166.45]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id u67si37190ywf.5.2015.10.12.19.24.02 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jake@mail.jerrington.me designates 192.99.166.45 as permitted sender) client-ip=192.99.166.45; Received: from [10.0.0.176] (107-179-139-32.cpe.teksavvy.com [107.179.139.32]) by jerrington.me (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42DD4145F20 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:25:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [lojban] When pigs fly was: It's Greek to me To: lojban@googlegroups.com References: <201207231411.12437.phma@phma.optus.nu> <2551745.zjSZF4YxXm@caracal> From: Jacob Errington Message-ID: <561C6B5D.2030505@mail.jerrington.me> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:24:29 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2551745.zjSZF4YxXm@caracal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Original-Sender: jake@mail.jerrington.me X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jake@mail.jerrington.me designates 192.99.166.45 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jake@mail.jerrington.me Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: , List-Unsubscribe: , X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_bar: - On 10/09/2015 04:19 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > That reminds me of another expression: when pigs fly. I once suggested "ca le > bavla'i rusydei" (the element-day equivalent would be "vardei"), which could > be expanded to "ca lo cinomoi be lo febvari be'o noi rusydei". One could also > say "ca lo nu lo jipci cu se denci" or "ca lo nu lo xarju cu vofli". The > problem is that answering "ca ma co'e" with "lo bavla'i rusydei" means that it > will happen on Grayday, which is impossible, since there is no Grayday. What's > the right way to say it? > > Pierre > .i pe'i lo nu no da me lo rusydei cu na vajni .i lo remna sa'e se tavla cu jimpe ju'o lo du'u ca no da ja'o fasnu .i mi'e la tsani mu'o -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.