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> (A conversation rumored to have happened in Transylvania, one
> cold winter evening)
> "Sir, do you belive that ghosts exist"
> "No, I don't"
> - whereupon the other vanished...

In Lojban:

.i ti'e di'e snuselsku vi la trans,l,vani,a calenu lenku jo'u dunra vanci
.i tu'e lu .i ga'inai .i .iapei le pruxi cu zasti li'u .i lu .ianai li'u
.ija'ebo lo drata cu canci tu'u


.i       ti'e        di'e            snuselsku    vi la trans,l,vani,a
Evidential-hearsay next-utterance discuss-express at    Transylania

             calenu             lenku    jo'u        dunra  vanci
simultaneous-with-the-event-of  cold in-common-with winter evening.

.i     tu'e      lu .i ga'inai .i    .iapei      le   pruxi cu zasti li'u
Text-scope-start  "    Meekness. Belief-question the spirits   exists  ".

.i lu   .ianai  li'u
    " Disbelief   "

.ija'ebo lo  drata cu canci      tu'u
 Result: the other   vanish text-scope-end


ni'o co'omi'e dn.