From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Wed Apr 14 07:27:28 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 14 Apr 1993 13:23:46 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5195; Wed, 14 Apr 93 13:23:07 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4887; Wed, 14 Apr 93 11:57:25 EST Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 11:27:28 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: A (Lame) Joke in Loglan X-To: Lojban List To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: <9304141432.19392@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU> from "Nick Nicholas" at Apr 15, 93 00:32:55 am Status: OR Message-ID: la nitcion. cusku di'e > To quote Filthy (or was it Rich or Claptrap?) from the BBC comedy series > of the same names, "I got it; I just didn't think it was funny." {ditka > ditca}'s alliteration is the only punchline you'll get out of this. By George, I do believe he's got it. (Mut[ilat]ed Shaw.) > I don't know what {denlingau} is about (braces?), Certainly possible; I was completely clueless. The Institute is notorious for desperately bad lujvo. > and {galctu}, for either professor or high school teacher, is... well. > Liberal, shall I say... Institute Loglan has {banli}, but it doesn't have {nobli}, which might be the right thing here. Or does {nolctu} mean "Distinguished Professor"? > Nick, wondering whether his Lojban analyser should implement database > queries... ki'oroi go'i -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.