[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg

[Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:33:57PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
>  
>
> > How would I say, "Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg" in Lojban?
> >
> > la lojban na vulkan. e borg.
> >    
>
> There are rather a lot of errors in that sentence.  It has no
> selbri, and names (like vulkan and borg) must have la or doi in
> front of them.
>
> How about:
>
> la .lojban. na mintu la .vulkan. .a la .borg.
>
> (the borg have a language?)
Actually, the borg communicate by sending encrypted Lojban to each other 
over their transponders or whatever their radio-thingies are called.

Incidentally, Vulcan speak a dialect of Lojban without the emotional 
parts of selma'o UI.

.u'i mi'e maik.