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Re: [lojban] false friends



Pierre Abbat scripsit:
> One of the gismu lists selling Kilto cushion covers is in Loglan, so I made a 
> list of false friends and other word pairs between Loglan and Lojban on the 
> Anyone want to try making a sentence that means one thing in Lojban and 
> another in Loglan?

"le barda mi dakli" means "the big one is a bag with me in it" in Lojban,
but in Loglan it means "the one who rewards is more likely than me".

Likewise, "gutra le maksi" means "A womb of the magnet!" in Lojban,
"Be strange to the maximum value!" in Loglan.

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