Re: [lojban] Where is Lojbangug?

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/14/2001 7:06:08 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:

Obviously the Lojban words correspond only approximately to those
earthly plants and animals. The place structure of terdi makes it
quite clear that the natives are familiar with at least two
inhabited planets (otherwise the x2 of terdi makes no sense),
and since we humans have not as yet discovered any other such
planet, we must conclude that it was originally the language of
some other race somewhere other than on Earth.

A reasonable explanation, though it might just be the langauge of the keeper
of an international market (or now just an ordinary super) who has to stock
all the fruits mentioned.  Or a trustee of the zoo-museum district (including
the botanical garden) who has to deal with the whole kit and kaboodle (he
screwed up {terdi} for Trekkies).  The extraterrestrial view has strange
implications for SW work, I suspect.