Return-Path: Message-Id: <9208191442.AA15489@relay1.UU.NET> Date: Wed Aug 19 14:14:10 1992 Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Sender: Lojban list From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: The Lojban Kalevala Project X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski's message of Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:17:36 BST Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed Aug 19 14:14:10 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.bitnet!LOJBAN >Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:17:36 BST >From: Ivan A Derzhanski >> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:57:37 +1000 >> From: nsn@AU.OZ.MU.EE.MULLIAN >> >> Ivan writes (btw, welcome back; >Welfound. (I mean, _kalws se brhka_.) I take it that's an Arabic expression? (the _brhka_ root leads me to believe that). Very similar one in Hebrew: welcome greeting: "Baruch haba'"--"Blessed be he who comes", to which the response is "Baruch hanimtza"--"Blessed be he who is found [already here]". I like it, pesonally. ni'ota'o doi nitcion. pau do snada xu te mrilu lemi kardu la .iisra'EL.? ~mark