From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 28 13:38:26 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MVtRK-0003uM-8T for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:38:26 -0700 Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com ([209.85.217.220]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MVtRH-0003tP-E2 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:38:26 -0700 Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so871723gxk.10 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:38:17 -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=VTO7TKYKadkAZxHxa1aaF7geK6TO/azrZiL6jxPSyH0=; b=DqjxSjnE6kpi0Lgm9r9I3oo5ezPTK66QfkFErf+3wPXFGgQJY+izFMuld5wNRHmjpr tbsdbi/mh0rtTbkzSGlTQqf7eMPUA7vnq/W63rp0/SO8ARQuYKfm4hz5VW0keF+uzb10 psum7oA0ICJQRlKqe77tnz8/R73E2/d9REFL0= 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=FsFI3VvMuSswLPCNV2oNHDANU/LubfnnVUncCMehdQCxqKzjHcImqc7Mg0eU7VwsKL u39COGqpXt+WPqEXU/YNRYqnYNKHWBLA77U9/PYE3dZacXPo3yG8pXi+mfL8Dy9HuWCY A49zWSOyeObddbkJPuXMhGnpGhmF+sTN6FYec= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.78.14 with SMTP id a14mr7352335agb.41.1248813497063; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:38:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A6F5D8C.7020904@perpetuum-immobile.de> References: <4A6F5A92.6040304@perpetuum-immobile.de> <4A6F5D8C.7020904@perpetuum-immobile.de> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:38:17 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560907281338t6aff1e64k5044f4c803433c11@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: jbolatmi'a - o rly? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 15835 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote: > james riley wrote: >> http://jbo.bravehost.com/myPictures/ianai.jpg > > clarification: > derf and i just discussed wether iacu'i might be a better translation of > 'o rly?' than ianai is. what do you think? But iacu'i/ianai are completely devoid of sarcasm. "o rly?" seems to express some kind of fake naivete, but that is totally absent from iacu'i/ianai, which is plain doubt or disbelief. Wouldn't something like "ua ju'opei" be a more appropriate translation? (I'm not really a user of "o rly?" so I'm just going by the wikipedia description.) mu'o mi'e xorxes 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.