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RE: [lojban] Not a troll, just a silly post [Was Re: Enemy & Re: No number base]



I'd do the bomb one as the equivalent of 'somebody installed us on the bomb,' witha cmavo missing, and it's the same as the psuedo-english. As for AYBABTU, try'all your base (singular) (random extra cmavo) belong (plural) to me (plural).' I'm not sure, but I thought there was an optional pluralizing cmavo...
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From: sentto-44114-7402-991260114-ragnarok=pobox.com@returns.onelist.com [mailto:sentto-44114-7402-991260114-ragnarok=pobox.com@returns.onelist.com]On Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:02 PM
To: lojban@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [lojban] Not a troll, just a silly post [Was Re: Enemy & Re: No number base]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:58:54PM -0600, Jay Kominek wrote:
> <imo>The two phrases are broken English. You cannot convey the same
> meaning in grammatical Lojban, because the nongrammaticity of the English
> is the whole point. I mean, you are laughing at the poor Japanese->English
> translator who producedthe sentence, right? (I don't see anything else
> funny about the sentences.)</imo>

True.  Very true.

But you could recreat them with _un_gramattical lojban.  8)

Hey, Jay, how'sthe dictionary coming?

-Robin

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