[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello!

[Nora Kischer-Browne <azetidine@gmail.com>]

coi .djun.

You know, this shorter version of your name sounds like the English
name/month "June". Not sure if you intended for it to have that
association; I also probably wouldn't have brought it up if that
weren't my middle name. ^_^

On 8/12/05, Servanto de Homaro <ServantoDeHomaro@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> MA> I understood all of your English except for "I found a
> MA> grammer and a grammer."  Perhaps you mean that this book has
> MA> lots of grammar but it has no vocabulary.
> 
> As you see, I want to say "lots of grammer".  And I understood
> that non Japanese speakers don't understand this Japanesque
> expression.

Perhaps an equivalent English expression might be:
" . . . but all I found in this book was grammar and more grammar,"
indicating rather a surplus thereof. :)

I find most of your English perfectly understandable, and, honestly,
quite entertaining, as few stiff and serious English speakers have
such colorful usage. ^_^ The closest thing I've ever used to an
expression like "educating" a database [understandable, but more
common usage would have you say "writing entries for" a
database/dictionary] has probably been "embezzling" pizza (rather than
eating it).

As far as bixies (such as ;_; and ^_^) go, you'll probably find many
English-speaking internet users have adopted them for their very
own--especially in the otaku-friendly communities. Perhaps, with your
help, Lojbanistan will soon become one of them. (hentai in lojban,
anyone?)

mu'o mi'e noras.