From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 18 07:12:54 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdPQk-0000x4-GQ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:12:54 -0700 Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com ([209.85.219.216]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdPQc-0000ii-OV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:12:54 -0700 Received: by ewy12 with SMTP id 12so3648475ewy.0 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:12:40 -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; bh=EV9vUkzw0QeI9qZ/Pd7++Ll3eo/Ya9nCuj7WOq97pFM=; b=Efr4QZdm3hFDtpCd2hCWH7U24Nq/cY7T3/yACE8TWxrr77Q81WOc/dBV7yYM2CqXFD ugIdcDuba6Tgnb1You3G+PtJu6ji5TcOxrK2RuBHspcrfwF6lByyq4djAXngPOqRfwB+ PfuxmG95qzN3SHAI+qSD83Dz3evu1ZrPkWLBQ= 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; b=E/0nrvIHm3ChTQGf5gXBE4K3Odg9OMO5Rdwlg/t8eKktXzL1sM4KzUJjWPHUAhV2e/ 4dna4r7/0CzTQWnUZV6QprQacip8yW2N8EZXUe14/1SAXbXrZElU1+P7frNtzxd3MI9y llCXNenQd8mjhQAhCL+zkEcCf0/7uSI6YFee4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.211.202.16 with SMTP id e16mr7368326ebq.64.1250604760330; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:12:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <5715b9300908180647n4c381923vd29d80b707570eed@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:12:40 -0400 Message-ID: <8a20e9f70908180712r2af20b9enf6b0a84604adebeb@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: xu mi ka'e ponse lo xamselfi'i From: Jameson Orndorff To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd1e5da7e905104716b1cf6 X-archive-position: 15973 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jtorndorff@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --000e0cd1e5da7e905104716b1cf6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not a lojban original, but much funnier and more easily adaptable in lojban! This can be better written, but off the top of my head: za'a pa no lo prenu cu zasti .i jimpe be lo cmacrbaineri .i na jimpe Actually, I'm pretty sure that's mangled. Probably need something to tie it all together better. This job is killing me... Anyway, it's the old joke "There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't." The humor is conveyed better in lojban because in spoken English, saying "ten" doesn't quite have that numerical ambiguity that saying "pa no" does. --000e0cd1e5da7e905104716b1cf6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Not a lojban original, but much funnier and more easily adaptable in l= ojban! This can=A0be better written, but off the top of my head:
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za'a pa no lo prenu cu zasti .i=A0jimpe be lo cmacrbaineri .i na j= impe
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Actually, I'm pretty sure that's mangled. Probably need someth= ing to tie it all together better.=A0This job is killing me...
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Anyway, it's the old joke "There are 10 types of people in th= is world - those who understand binary and those who don't." The h= umor is conveyed better in lojban because in spoken English, saying "t= en" doesn't quite have that numerical ambiguity that saying "= pa no" does.
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