From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:47:37 2010
Subject: Re: purple lojban
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From: cowan
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:13:39 -0400 (EDT)
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la lojbab. cusku di'e

> Poet and semi-Lojbanist Michael Helsem created the word zirjbo ("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.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.