From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 21 21:45:48 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EpJGc-0006m2-LR for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:45:30 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EpJGc-0006lv-BB for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:45:30 -0800 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:45:30 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: this sentence struck me funny Message-ID: <20051222054530.GL18265@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200512182001.53832.phma@phma.hn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512182001.53832.phma@phma.hn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10941 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:01:51PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I'm looking on the Web for anything about rituals involving the > jatob? tree (which in Lojban I call {kurbarile}, from the species > name) and found a page with this sentence: > > ...a l?ngua dos Enawen? Naw? ? parecida com a l?ngua falada pelos Pareci. > > I took "parecida" as the Portuguese word (it means "similar" or > "appeared"), then noticed the similarity to the people named at > the end, then thought {123 da} and extended the last word to > {parecivomu}. :) Heh heh heh. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.