[lojban] Re: {zdile} mi na nelci zo bai

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:55:59PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 4/15/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > No response at all?  I was expecting at least a giggle from
> > xorxes. Or ARJ.  :-)
> 
> It was quite funny, but I have several objections :)

Butter than nothing.  :-)

> 1- it doesn't parse (three sentences without separation).

Of course not; it's poetry.

> 2- {kai} should tag something with a property, not a property.

Ooops.  I'll fix that.

> "it's also the only one I've seen that maintains rhyme and meter
> throughout"
> 
> 3- it doesn't exactly maintain rhyme and meter. 

It doesn't?

> Syllable counts are 6-6-9 5-5-9 5-5-9, 

Oh crap, you're right.  I'll fix that too.

> and do you want to stress "ZO doi E zo CAI" to match "TCEtce GLEki
> SAI"? 

Not so much.

> Also {REMpai} doesn't rhyme with the others, at least not with my
> understanding of rhymes.

I was rhyming solely on "ai".  If there's something wrong with
"REMpai" for that purpose, I don't get it.

> 4- you should have seen, for example
> <http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=doi%20dirba> among
> others. :)

That's a lymmeric!  Go you.

What was catkycputra supposed to mean?

Umm.  Nevermind.  That's a *sexual* lymmeric.  .io sai.

-Robin

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