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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...
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
--
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/
BTW, I'm male, honest.
le datni cu djica le
nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno
je xlali -- RLP
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