Return-Path: Message-Id: <9204031629.AA25013@relay1.UU.NET> Date: Fri Apr 3 13:09:03 1992 Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Sender: Lojban list From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: Nick's joke X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster's message of Thu, 2 Apr 1992 20:33:35 LCL Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Apr 3 13:09:03 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN I'm very proud to say that I got the joke without looking at a single word list even *once*. I'm less proud to say why: I understood a fair number of the words, from which I recalled the joke, and from there I could make out all the others. But I think I wound up understanding nearly every word by the time I was done. Comments: ru'azo'o loire jvixi'a casnu vi lo xalgusta {loire} implies that there are *only* two racehorses in the world, doesn't it? Like {lo ci remna} where {ci [lo ro] remna} would be better? Probably just use {leire} or something. Could you use {re jvixi'a}, or do you really need the "mass"? Oh, and you need a {cu} before {casnu}. Very understandable on the whole. Didn't know that about the Korean joke-telling style; most informative. ~mark