Re: [lojban] Poetry

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 11:33 AM 06/08/2001 -0400, Craig wrote:
> coi rodo
>
>         I had an idea for a lojban poetic verseform which is unique among 
> poetic
> styles I have seen so far, both in that it cannot be translated to English
> and in that it uses no gismu.

Now that is an interesting question: if we could find something like this 
in Lojban that is meaningful and indeed cannot be translated into other 
languages, would that be evidence for a strong form of the Sapir-Whorf 
hypothesis?

I suspect, however, that this poetry COULD be translated into English, but 
perhaps not retaining the verse-form.

lojbab
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