Re: [lojban] Re: Posterity Badness.

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:12:52AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> >
> > --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > > 'angeli'.
> > >
> > > Other than that, no idea.  Having seen the word 'angeli', I
> > > simply assumed that it was written by a very poor Lojbanist, and
> > > didn't read the rest.  I'm rather surprised to find out I was
> > > wrong.
> >
> > That's an odd reaction. {angeli} is a valid fu'ivla, it is the
> > type of culturally specific word that fu'ivla were meant for, and
> > on top of that it has seen some usage other than in this piece. I
> > remembered having read this passage on the list before, though I
> > didn't remember it was from tsali.
>
> <shrug>  I don't like type-4.  I *especially* don't like type-4 when
> the concept is trivially expressible with a lujvo (in this case
> cesru'i or cesycrida, take your pick).
>
> And I had no idea it was valid.  My internal Lojban recognizer
> screamed at the sight of it


ju'oru'e ganai da'i do nalglico je lojbo sanji gi do ka'enai srera tu'a lo
glico seri'a le nu lojbo lanli zo angeli



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