From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 12 10:56:52 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J2WlH-0004uF-MH for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:56:51 -0800 Received: from squid17.laughingsquid.net ([72.32.93.144]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J2WlD-0004tL-MB for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:56:51 -0800 Received: (qmail 27065 invoked by uid 48); 12 Dec 2007 10:56:40 -0800 Received: from c-75-68-233-37.hsd1.vt.comcast.net (c-75-68-233-37.hsd1.vt.comcast.net [75.68.233.37]) by webmail.ixkey.info (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:56:40 -0800 Message-ID: <20071212105640.s6i4e6sts880g0ws@webmail.ixkey.info> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:56:40 -0800 From: mungojelly@ixkey.info To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] a poem/script MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 13999 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mungojelly@ixkey.info Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Here's a script I wrote for a seltivni. Someone on that groovy tertivni YouTube suggested I should post myself having a conversation in Lojban. Well, I do have conversations with myself in Lojban [se'o], but they are strange conversations [.u'i]! Usually when I am talking to myself in Lojban, what I am saying [se'o] is mostly playing with Lojbanic syntax. I'll say to myself: ".i mi mi tavla dei (I love using "dei") .i mi ri tavla .i mi ri fa mi ri fa mi ri fa mi ri tavla dei" (I'm to me I'm to me I'm to me I'm to me talking about this sentence! But the Lojban is grammatical! [.uisai] Wee!) So since I was asked so nicely, I wrote up a piece in this style I've been meaning to write in. This one is named "mitAvla" -- see the pun with mitvla? [.u'i] mitAvla: mi tavla .i mi tavla do .i mi tavla do la lojban. .i mi tavla .i mi tavla fi .y. ly. po'u la lojban. .i fi la lojban. tavla fa mi .i fa mi fe do tavla .i fo la lojban. tavla fa mi .i fo la lojban. tavla .i fo la lojban. fi la lojban. fe do fa mi tavla .i fe do fe do fi la lojban. fa mi tavla do .i mi fi ly. no'u la lojban. fe do fo ly. tavla .i tavla .i tavla do .i tavla do la lojban. .i fo la lojban. tavla fa mi .i fo ly. fa mi tavla .i tavla .i tavla fa mi .i tavla fa mi fi la lojban. .i fo la lojban. tavla fa mi fe do fi ly. la lojban. And a translation: mi tavla I'm talking. .i mi tavla do I'm talking to you. .i mi tavla do la lojban. I'm talking to you about Lojban. .i mi tavla I'm talking. .i mi tavla fi .y. ly. po'u la lojban. I'm talking about, uh, L (meaning Lojban). .i fi la lojban. tavla fa mi About Lojban talking am I. .i fa mi fe do tavla I to you am talking. .i fo la lojban. tavla fa mi In Lojban talking am I. .i fo la lojban. tavla In Lojban talking. .i fo la lojban. fi la lojban. fe do fa mi tavla In Lojban, about lojban, to you I am talking. .i fe do fe do fi la lojban. fa mi tavla do To you, to you, about Lojban I am talking to you. .i mi fi ly. no'u la lojban. fe do fo ly. tavla I, about L (Lojban), to you, in L, am talking. .i tavla Talking. .i tavla do Talking to you. .i tavla do la lojban. Talking to you about Lojban. .i fo la lojban. tavla fa mi In Lojban talking am I. .i fo ly. fa mi tavla In L I am talking. .i tavla Talking. .i tavla fa mi I am talking. .i tavla fa mi fi la lojban. I am talking about Lojban. .i fo la lojban. tavla fa mi fe do fi ly. la lojban. In Lojban talking am I to you about L in Lojban. Corrections & comments appreciated [.i'e.einaidai] before I make a recording [.ai]. I'm thinking of writing out the sentence ".i mi tavla do la lojban. la lojban." and pointing to each part as it's reiterated. Sort of immersive [.a'inaidai] practice in place tag grammar. Thus why I'm sharing it first to make sure I've got them all tagged properly. :) I just added the "fi" on the second to last line, so there's one down. :P ki'e mi'e bret. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.