Message-ID: <34885E81.4B5@locke.ccil.org> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 15:05:21 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: psychotherapeutic lojban References: <199712051728.MAA23474@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 693 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Dec 08 16:01:54 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - 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