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[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg



Robin Lee Powell wrote:

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:05:47PM +1200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
Philip Newton wrote:

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:29:15 +1300, Michael van der Gulik
<mikevdg@gulik.co.nz> wrote:


Incidentally, Vulcan speak a dialect of Lojban without the
emotional parts of selma'o UI.

.u'i mi'e maik.
.u'i ki'a .i mi na djuno le valsi .i ri na cmima le ma'oste

zo'o mu'o mi'e .filip.
ki'a mi na jimpe .i do na djuno ma poi valsi

zo .u'i .i la .filip. cu zgagau zo .u'i se pi'o zo ki'a

.i xu do na jimpe du'u smuni lu .u'i li'u

la .filip. go'i .i ku'i zdile cusku

.i xu de'u me se xamgau

ko vimcu zo me .i ku'i drani

.i lu ma'oste li'u lujvo ma

zoi zoi cmavo list zoi
je'e ro di'u (can you use "ro" like that?)

.i'o fa piso'i fe mi cu vamji le nu ... drani ... I give up. "I appreciate the corrections".

I know quite a few of the words, but its still a challenge to put them all together. Although I must say that its easier than using a foreign language - in Lojban you can just sit there and logically work out how a sentence should be put together rather than relying on a vast number of illogical idioms and irregular usages of words.

mi'e .maik