From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 26 12:29:22 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:29:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFHuE-0004PW-RA for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:29:14 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFHuE-0004PP-Oz for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:29:14 -0800 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:29:14 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: odd humor Message-ID: <20050326202914.GI10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <925d1756050326080320e5d54@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9666 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:18:58AM -0500, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > One thing is certain -- among the creators of the Lojban > vocabulary were some folks with a childish but sometimes good > sense of humor, using puns that combine Lojban pronunciation with > English typography... > > For instance > > dog = gerku ??? (my wife, a dog-lover, doesn't like that > one...) > > I eat meat == me citka le rectu (kinda graphic, no?? ... ;p) Umm, Ben? What are you talking about? I don't see any humour here. BTW, the gismu were all created by taking the sounds for the word in question from the six most widely spoken languages and mushing the sounds together. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/