[lojban-beginners] Re: "I gotta go feed my baby turtles"

["Donald McLean" <dmclean62@gmail.com>]

Humor is generally culture specific. I know that at my house, things
that have us rolling on the floor would mean nothing to most people.

So, if you want to tell an English joke, use English (note that
Americans might or might not find it funny and vice-versa).

Donald

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:37 PM, tijlan <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
> from
> http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/288241.html
>
> "There is an artificial language called Lojban which is based on
> predicate logic. It was created to form a language in which it is
> impossible to form an ambiguous sentence. That's a bit of a shame as
> it would eliminate so much humor."
>
> Do we have any workaround to retain as much humor in Lojban as in
> English in terms of ambiguity?
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