[lojban-beginners] Re: le pelxu ni'ablo -- The Yellow Submarine

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On 6/15/06, la cuncuxnas. <thatskotkid@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a related (if only because "ma'a" was used in the song) note, what's the
> best way to say "others, not you, not me" in Lojban?  As in "they call me
> Doctor Worm," et cetera.  The listener presumably doesn't already call him
> Doctor Worm,

> and he isn't calling himself Doctor Worm.

I think it's worthwhile to note that in Spanish, a common idiom
meaning "I'm [name]", or "My name is [name]", is this: "Me llamo
[nombre]". This translates literally as "I call myself [name]". So
maybe, in Spanish, he *would* call himself Doctor Worm.

Chris Capel
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