Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id QAA24863 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 16:05:28 -0400 Message-Id: <199510202005.QAA24863@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id DE2CB2B5 ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:33:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 20:11:19 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: purple lojban X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Fri Oct 20 16:05:31 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU ever-edudite John Cojban: > la lojbab. cusku di'e > > Poet and semi-Lojbanist Michael Helsem created the word zirjbo Why "semi-Lojbanist"? I believe he's the author of the only published book written in Lojban. > > ("purple Lojban") and it's adjectival counterpart jbozi'u > > ("lojbanically purple") as intentional malglico puns based on > > the phrase "purple prose". > Not so malglico. The phrase appears in Latin; it's used by the > poet Horace. Maybe it might get called mabla latmo then. But I don't see why it's mabla. It's all very well for Lojban to be culturally neutral (not that it is - it is thoroughly occidental) but I don't see why its speakers are supposed to be. Being culturally partisan is a birthright of every European. --- And