Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:48:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712082148.QAA22750@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral Subject: Re: psychotherapeutic lojban X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 728 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Dec 8 16:48:41 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU la .and. cusku di'e > p.s. I got an A in my Chemistry O level. My teacher predicted > I'd fail, but I memorized stuff about Bessemer Converters, > Vanadium IV Pentoxide, and something that involved the sequence > "Potassium, Calcium, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Zinc, Iron, > Lead, Silver, Gold". Fuck knows what that was all about. Reminds me of the alien in Hal Clement's sf novel _Iceworld_, chanting "Gold--Tofacco! Gold--Tofacco! Gold--Tofacco!" without knowing what the hell he's saying. (What he *wants* is to trade his gold for the Earthling's tobacco, but he can't manage labial stops.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban