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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 19:05:16 +0300
From: Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>
Subject: Posting in Lojban
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Those of you who keep an eye on the AUXLANG list will be familiar
with my habit of slipping bits of Lojban into postings on other
subjects (zo'o in that particular case, usually
Occidental-bashing).  The following quote, however, is my first
all-Lojban posting to a non-Lojban list
(phil-counsel@onelist.com).  I am not sure whether this is a good
way to promote Lojban or just linguistic spamming - I was going
to write in English but suddenly got this Lojbanic urge.  Some of
my lujvo may be a bit malformed, though ;-)


> la su.xainz. cusku di'e
> [Sue hines expresses the-following]
>
> > I am totally horrified that people who are supposedly dispensing advice on the love
> > or pursuit of wisdom should become mean and rude.  Having revealed a lack of wisdom
> > in the first place by trying to brand a function older than Socrates himself, they
> > compound it by engaging in petty feuding. I do not have a formal, much less
> > academic background in philosophy, but it does not take a doctorate in "the study
> > or science of the truths or principles underlying all knowledge" to spot rottenness
> > at the core.
> >
>
> .uu.u'i.iecu'i
> [sympathy coupled with amusement and neither-agreement-nor-disagreement]
>
> la su.xainz. goi ko'a ba'usku loi drani
> [Sue Hines henceforth-referred-to-as "ko'a" exaggeratedly-expresses a-mass-of true-things]
>
> .i ku'i pe'i na ko'a ze'e jimpe lei samymri cu'u la clomit. goi ko'e
> [however, I-opine it-is-not-the-case-that "ko'a" (i.e. Sue) during-the-whole-time-period understands
> the-mass-of e-mail expressed-by Schlomit henceforth-referred-to-as "ko'e"]
>
> mi cnikansa
> [I empathise]
>
> za'a ko'e na'e nelci lei nunmenmikce
> [I-observe "ko'e" (i.e. Schlomit) not likes the-mass-of event-mental-medic (i.e.
> psychiatry/psychotherapy)]
>
> .i ko'e na'e djice lenu zoi gy. philosophical counselling gy. cu binxo cmene lo nunmenmikce
> ["ko'e" not wants the-event-of "philosophical counselling" become the-name-of a psychotherapy]
>
> .i .ie
> [I agree]
>
> .i ba'unai ku'i lei selcusku ko'e ku na'e clite
> [understatement: however the-mass-of that-expressed by "ko'e" not polite]
>
> .uenai ko'a drife'u
> [I-am-not-surprised "ko'a" sad-angry]
>
> .i ku'i ze'eze'oku lo prijskepre ka'e nalclite mu'u la dai,odjiniz.
> [however all-the-time-everywhere a philosopher can be-impolite as-exemplified-by Diogenes]
>
> doi suzyn. ko na'e drife'u
> [O Susan! be not sad-angry]
>
> lei prijske na'e mintu lei prijskepre
> [the-mass-of philosophy not the-same-as the-mass-of philosophers]
>
> co'o mi'e robin.
> ['bye this-is Robin]
>