[lojban-beginners] Re: klingon swears

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

Sara,

Sorry about Michael jumping on you. As xorxes said, there does exist a
part of our official dictionary site where people can make a Lojban
dictionary with definitions in Klingon. It is, truly, amazingly geeky
and awesome.

I wish we could help you not just with Klingon swears, but with some
Lojban swears! I'll bet that would impress your guy and his folks.
Unfortunately it's a tricky thing to swear in Lojban. This has been a
constant source of discussion. Usually we preface a word with the
prefix "mal", short for "mabla".

mabla mal derogative. x1 is a derogative connotation/sense of x2 used
by x3; x3 derogates/'curses at' x2 in form x1. [bloody (British
sense), fucking, shit, goddamn]

You may have stumbled on the wrong mailing list, but so what? Stay a
while! Put your feet up on the furniture! Drink the koolaid!  :)

Sincerely,
Matt Arnold
President, Logical Language Group

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Sara Brand<seraneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> And here I had thought someone actually wanted to translate klingon into
> lojban. That would be amazingly geeky and awesome.
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Carlos Gabriel Quiroz <quirozom@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> haha This email exchange is a funny way to start my day.
>>
>> p.s. Newbies are particularly palatable with some BBQ sauce.
>>
>> 2009/9/1 Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 01:10:39PM +0100, Michael Eaton wrote:
>>> > Lojban <> Klingon.
>>> >
>>> > Perhaps a Klingon board or mailing list, and maybe a little research,
>>> > would serve you better.
>>>
>>> Hey, no reason to bite the newbies.
>>>
>>> Sarah Leach: you probably want to subscribe to tlhingan-hol instead.
>>>
>>> The rest of you: Robin runs both the Klingon and Lojban mailing lists.
>>> http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/ has a prominent link to
>>> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi, which is used to join any
>>> mailing list run from lojban.org, including this one.
>>>
>>> I presume the source of the confusion is that the name of the Klingon
>>> mailing list is "tlhingan-hol" (not immediately recognizable to someone who
>>> doesn't know any Klingon), while this mailing list is the only in the list
>>> that contains the word "beginners". This is poor usability, and should be
>>> fixed. Might it not be possible to make Ecartis display only the
>>> Klingon-related lists to people arriving from kli.org?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Arnt Richard Johansen                Âhttp://arj.nvg.org/
>>> As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it
>>> wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had
>>> to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized
>>> that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in
>>> finding mistakes in my own programs.
>>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â-- Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
>>>
>>>
>>>
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