From cbmvax!pyramid!infmx!godzilla!cortesi Thu Jun 6 20:01:18 1991 Return-Path: From: cbmvax!uunet!infmx!godzilla!cortesi (David Cortesi) Message-Id: <9106061526.AA11580@godzilla.informix.com> Subject: Re: Saddam T-shirts To: lojban-list@snark.thyrsus.com (lojban mailing list) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 8:26:25 PDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3INFORMIX PL45] Status: RO > uunet!ee.mu.oz.au!nsn sez: > > ... I am finding this forum lively, > interesting, instructive, and damn cool. What worries me is that I might > be alone in this, and that the lurkers are not having that much fun at all. > I dunno, maybe we should have a survey or something. I'm enjoying it, for one. I think I can follow the issues; I just don't know enough vocabulary (especially cmavo which I am beginning to think are more important to learn first than gismu) to be able to contribute anything useful. So I lurk, but contentedly. > Anyway, to {la saDAM. galfi}/ {lenu la saDAM. broda cu galfi}: > [lots about Saddam/Kuwait in respect to cleft place structures omitted] It might help this particular thread of discussion if you would just change your example from Saddam-causing?-invasion-of-Kuwait to the less emotive case of Tom Sawyer causing the fence to get painted by making others want to do it. As far as I can see, it's the same, or possibly even more relevant. (State it in Lojban? Me? I can't get any further than la tam soi'r... and I have serious doubts about that.) cortesi@informix.com