Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t6No8-0000ZOC; Fri, 20 Oct 95 22:12 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 454B175D ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 21:12:48 +0100 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: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 755 Lines: 21 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