[lojban] Re: odd humor

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:18:58AM -0500, Ben
> Goertzel wrote:
> > 
> > One thing is certain -- among the creators of
> the Lojban
> > vocabulary were some folks with a childish
> but sometimes good
> > sense of humor, using puns that combine
> Lojban pronunciation with
> > English typography...
> > 
> > For instance
> > 
> > dog = gerku   ???  (my wife, a dog-lover,
> doesn't like that
> > one...)
> > 
> > I eat meat == me citka le rectu  (kinda
> graphic, no?? ...  ;p)
> 
> Umm, Ben?  What are you talking about?
> 
> I don't see any humour here.

Well, I sorta see the mild wit in {gerku} for
"dog," but at most this suggests that many major
languages use something onomatopoetic for "dog."
Though some selection from the approximately
equally ranked choices from word crunching *may*
have been involved, too.

> BTW, the gismu were all created by taking the
> sounds for the word in
> question from the six most widely spoken
> languages and mushing the
> sounds together.