From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 25 14:25:24 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 25 May 2005 14:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Db3NK-0006YU-Gx for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 14:25:14 -0700 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Db3NG-0006YM-Ih for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 14:25:14 -0700 Received: from p54A08D14.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.160.141.20] (helo=[192.168.178.21]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML25U-1Db3O72sJJ-0000UM; Wed, 25 May 2005 23:26:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4294ED81.6030700@online.de> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 23:26:25 +0200 From: klaus schmirler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: lujvo cmene etc References: <428F4B9C.8040300@yandex.ru> <925d1756050521105862cde0a3@mail.gmail.com> <42906975.4010100@yandex.ru> <925d1756050522125392ad8@mail.gmail.com> <4291E9D2.6040403@yandex.ru> <925d1756050524055021ffdd11@mail.gmail.com> <429365A8.9050106@yandex.ru> <91c7f6ff05052511046b19c162@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <91c7f6ff05052511046b19c162@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:5e2e22a5d422cd51ce0171a884c92cf6 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10049 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: KSchmir@online.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Mike Luevane wrote: >It's called "filk" in english. Someone else with more brainpower than >myself can probably come up with a suitable lojban word :) > > No! In many languages, English among them, there is a word for the reuse of a melody just because the melody is there, with no idea of a spoofing a song or anything. Just like you change the name in Happy Birthday. And as Alekseiy says, the word is "parody" in a less common but perfectly acceptable meaning. Ditto for the guy with the brainpower. klaus