Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GKJi3-00031Y-4e for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:02:15 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GKJi2-00031R-S1 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:02:15 -0700 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:02:14 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Stress. Message-ID: <20060904190214.GU29824@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20060902164155.51784.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> <12d58c160609021223l58876451q672af9a04d359d6c@mail.gmail.com> <2d3df92a0609021314m5bd32555n389ea2afedf21959@mail.gmail.com> <737b61f30609031028u632750fnf464dfa780087211@mail.gmail.com> <20060903182706.GF29824@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060903183246.GG29824@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3565 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 1360 On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:36:46AM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > On 9/3/06, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:27:06AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > >Thought about it more, ran a search. "letadjicaku" can parse as > >"le ta djica ku" or "le tadji ca ku", both completely valid and > >sensible. > > It has long been maintained that Lojban is a language in which > puns would not work as a form of humor. Strictly speaking of > correct Lojban, this is true. But this example made me realize > that a clever punster who speaks Lojban can still create humor by > speaking an utterance ever so slightly wrong. If the listener is > sufficiently good with Lojban, the pattern-recognition engine the > human brain will recognize what he said and what he almost said, > resulting in a humorous double meaning. This is almost exactly the > same mechanism as a pun. I expect a lot of Lojbanic > language-dependent humor to depend on a listener recognizing what > was _almost_ said. That's a *very* interesting point. A huge amount of skill would be required. It'll be interesting to see how that turns out. -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/