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Re: [lojban] Re: Cartoon by a conlanger



On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:18:22 -0400
"Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com> wrote:

> >> >> > http://www.langmaker.com/db/cmc_unitedwestan.jpg
> >> >>
> >> >> Ido-land trying to attack Lojbanistan without even a Langmaker
> >> >> mandate?
> >>
> >> >.ua xlali malspero! zo'o
> >>
> >> But we got to annex la loglandias first.
> 
> >"got" as in the past tense of "get" or "got to" as in "have to"?
> 
> In my particular dialect of English, it can only be the former, as the
> second would need another auxiliary verb: "we've got to annex". I was
> referring to the fact that the cartoon shows Lojbanistan as including
> the territory of Loglandia.

Did it? I hadn't noticed.

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