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Re: [lojban] Re: RE:literalism

To: "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" <Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: RE:literalism
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@egroups.com
In-reply-to: <8sv221+lb60@eGroups.com>

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting) wrote:

> Do not look toward German etc.! Expressions like (good old)
> "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän" are a persiflage on
> "real 
> bad", very often bureaucratic/ridiculous German linguistic/social
> features [...].

Me, I like "Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackspfeifenmachengesellschaft".

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter

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