From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Apr 15 13:14:37 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DMXCv-0002kn-CK for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:14:29 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DMXCv-0002ke-8y for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:14:29 -0700 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:14:29 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: {zdile} mi na nelci zo bai Message-ID: <20050415201429.GB9654@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050414194642.GR15911@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20050414201420.GT15911@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20050415193816.GG13636@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d175605041512551ca0b8a3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d175605041512551ca0b8a3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9841 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 Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:55:59PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > On 4/15/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > No response at all? I was expecting at least a giggle from > > xorxes. Or ARJ. :-) > > It was quite funny, but I have several objections :) Butter than nothing. :-) > 1- it doesn't parse (three sentences without separation). Of course not; it's poetry. > 2- {kai} should tag something with a property, not a property. Ooops. I'll fix that. > "it's also the only one I've seen that maintains rhyme and meter > throughout" > > 3- it doesn't exactly maintain rhyme and meter. It doesn't? > Syllable counts are 6-6-9 5-5-9 5-5-9, Oh crap, you're right. I'll fix that too. > and do you want to stress "ZO doi E zo CAI" to match "TCEtce GLEki > SAI"? Not so much. > Also {REMpai} doesn't rhyme with the others, at least not with my > understanding of rhymes. I was rhyming solely on "ai". If there's something wrong with "REMpai" for that purpose, I don't get it. > 4- you should have seen, for example > among > others. :) That's a lymmeric! Go you. What was catkycputra supposed to mean? Umm. Nevermind. That's a *sexual* lymmeric. .io sai. -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/