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Re: [lojban] Re: pywates or pirots?



Ahah, I did get it aurally.  I always assumed --
as did at least one translator -- that "pywates"
was somehow related (Elmer Fuddly) to "pirates."

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/4/06, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
> wrote:
> > One of pc's contributions to jboselkei is
> "Pywates carulize elatically". I
> > googled "carulize" and found several
> instances of this sentence, but the
> > first word was "pirots". Which is correct?
> What's the difference between a
> > pywate and a pirot?
> 
> The original appears to be "Pirots karulize
> elatically" by Rudolf Carnap.
> "Carulize" looks more English than "karulize",
> but Carnap was born in
> Germany... "Pywates" would be the Elmer Fudd
> version of "pirots".
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
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