From @uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Thu Sep 24 12:20:19 1992 Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 24 Sep 1992 12:20:17 -0400 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9112; Thu, 24 Sep 92 12:19:02 EDT Received: by UGA (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) id 5717; Thu, 24 Sep 92 12:19:01 EDT Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 17:21:21 BST Reply-To: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK Sender: Lojban list From: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK Subject: Re: TECH(?): can everyone write impeccably grammatical Lojban? To: Erik Rauch Status: O X-Status: Message-ID: MarK: > Details, details. Both have the whole alphabet. Actually, I usually > prefer your version, since it's marginally shorter, but for some reason my > fingers typed the other. Shortest one I know is the grammatically marginal > "Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz." Or maybe "Zing! Vext cwm fly jabs Kurd > qoph." At 26 letters, those don't get any shorter, but their English is > less than helpful. All the words did manage to get into some respected > dictionaries, though. "zing" can also be taken as a participle of the verb "z: (meaning "buzz"). Colin