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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:45:40 -0300
From: "=?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
Subject: Re: live cultures (was: Promoting Lojban)
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>> Then again, there are those of us who reject the notion
>> of poetry that does not scan and rhyme, and it would be
>> damn hard to get those things in Lojban.
>
>{.ienaicai}  Metre is not a problem because you can insert or delete
>cmavo as you see fit! Rhyming is easier in Lojban than in English.


I can vouch for that. Even though I'm far more fluent in English
than in Lojban, I wouldn't even try to write rhymes in English,
but in Lojban it's far easier. Of course, that something scans
and rhymes doesn't mean it's good poetry, but here's an
example anyway (from Thanksgiving Day 1994):

       xukydei

        ca lo tcelenku djedi pe le masti
        ca le ciromoi masti pe le critu
        noda muvdu vi le zunle ja pritu
        i roda ca'o le djedi cu klasti

        i mi kucli le du'u xukau zasti
        ku'u le vi bragu'e fa lo krinu
        be le nu le vi panpi smaji jvinu
        lei tcaci ke cladu klaji cu basti

        i lei mi selpei cu nerkla lo sarlu
        i pe'u doi ka'e ciksi ko darlu
        le du'u ki'u makau kunti klaji

        i mi viska le nu va snime farlu
        i mi cmimo le kamtolkansa traji
        i ro lanzu lo ri xruki cu jmaji

co'o mi'e xorxes