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



Chris Capel wrote:
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.

But the desired meaning is the not less idiomatic "Me llaman/dicen Dr Gusano", I think. "They call me", as he wrote.

klaus