From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 11 09:51:36 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 11 May 2009 09:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M3Yj1-0001bn-N4 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 09:51:35 -0700 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.153]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M3Yiq-0001Zv-EO for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 09:51:35 -0700 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so9615931ywm.46 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 09:51:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8SB9RWKjGvvUByegqwDfDP9vYxwXOUvjHz/SpJIDo6M=; b=crNJ+q64bhyoNU8IrEOVZZyhRVIwOCQl29k5LnWvgaXQ4BQa82kau+gOzyS3IDS+/D mvx7CONIoqmmy2VyfMYBvwZCC1l0h466wXYzq9QdZJVkaOUhmaCI1zwrBDHIBzkFsh3L /t/Yqt0BVpIswh0wNyE5T6MHXWatKrWp+xug4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VXbF7poBWlm0g4aeVEC395opvkweaB/Z2PdoQ1dd90V5nkVfHe9dieyKAltCJCeoGi 9u9BoXXC3DrBtcOPVoAVXcqePFkDUbK5cciGbWTLWwfcAL0uyhh0LV5QEgyyKZev7yA+ ZnUtqjtm1pRoC8DGu39Q9fMmo75SfK8IxZ+I8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.136.4 with SMTP id o4mr13531723ybn.115.1242060675871; Mon, 11 May 2009 09:51:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200905081025.57188.phma@phma.optus.nu> References: <200905081025.57188.phma@phma.optus.nu> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:51:15 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60905110951t76a2cb58r88262fbf8f51f062@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: le fomsa sukta bo jensa From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 15570 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > This sign appeared on the door of room 315 (we were in 321) during Penguicon. > I had no idea what it was supposed to mean and asked around. It turned out > they meant "The Marshmallow Brigade", i.e. "la fonmo sakta jenmi". Clearly your mistake was in thinking that "le fomsa sukta bo jensa" was intended to be lojban. Actually, it's nothing of the sort. It's a polyglot utterance: le -- The (French) fomsa -- fit, appropriate (TLI Loglan) sukta -- vedic verses (Sanskrit(?)) bo -- in it (Hebrew) jensa -- our (Somish) Clearly, you were being told "The appropriate verses in it are ours". I think it's the linguistics equivalent to "All your base are belong to us". Glad I was able to clear this up. --gejyspa 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.