[lojban-beginners] Re: (no subject)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:35:50PM -0600, melissa@fastanimals.com wrote:
> These syntactically senseless sentences are possible in English and
> Spanish, and I seem to recall that they're possible in Swahili as well
> (although my Swahili is quite rusty).  I suspect that they are
> possible in any natural language.

I think you're confused about the word 'possible'.

"mi co klama gerku" is completely invalid Lojban.  It is invalid in
exactly the same way (in terms of being a syntactic invalidity) that "I
die you" is invalid in English.

However, it's still just a series of sounds, so it is of course
*possible* to say it.

-Robin

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