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From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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Rob Speer writes:
>On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 05:08:04AM -0400, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>> Umm, I read that sentence as "Is it true that that sentence is fucking
>> Spanish?".  While I can't imagine what the mal is there for, besides
>> random racial slurring, which seems unlikely, I should point out that
>> there is an equivalent English expression, "Beggars can't be chosers".
>> 
>> -Robin
>
>The word 'malglico' means 'derogatively English', referring to a phrase in
>Lojban that seems to have been translated directly from an English idiomatic
>phrase. 'malspano', similarly, would mean 'derogatively Spanish'.

Yeah, I realized that later.  However, I think the fact that the
sentence was accused of being malspano when the author had an English
phrase in mind kinda clears that issue up.  :)

-Robin

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