Re: [lojban] Material for phrasebook

[Edward Cherlin <edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu>]

At 3:22 AM +0000 6/4/01, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> This reminds me of another useful phrase:
>
>    lo pipybanfi cu nenri le zaglumbaktu
>    There is a frog in the bidet.
>
> If I remember correctly, something like that appeared
> in an Esperanto phrasebook in an episode of Red Dwarf.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes

The earliest exemplar that I am aware of was the guide to Russian 
that appeared in Mad Magazine in 1959, and was reprinted on page 61 
of "Completely Mad" in 1991 (ISBN 0-316-73891-3). For example,

"Waiter, there's a dictaphone in my borscht!"  "Tsam, hyu med tsee 
pahntz _tu lung!_"!

"I demand to see the American consul!"  "Hchew kent _du_ dits to mhee!"

The third column, in Cyrillic, naturally said something completely different.
--

Edward Cherlin
Generalist
"A knot! Oh, do let me help undo it."
Alice in Wonderland