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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.