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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 13:46, John Cowan wrote:
> Invent Yourself scripsit:
> > Why would you hesitate to correct it to pacna?
>
> The whole point is that John's grasp of Lojban is perilously weak.  If you
> are translating a Russian novel in which one of the characters speaks with
> a marked German accent, you would represent his dialogue as German-flavored
> English.  You wouldn't just wash the accent away.

.i fau lenu fanva fi le dotco kei, cu fanva tetai ma?

mu'omi'e pier.