[lojban] Re: Penguicon Lojban Presentation

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

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:08:51PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> 
> --- Jorge Llamb?as <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/28/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:59:11AM -0700,
> > John E Clifford wrote:
> > > > cmalenku
> > > 
> > > ki'a sai .o'o cu'i
> > 
> > pe'i smudji zo zabna i cumki ji'a fa lo nu lo tu vensa za'o na
> > banzu glari'a 
> > 
> Well, yes, it was meant to be favorable and, yes, Spring here has
> goone from 8os back to 40s (Fahrenheit, obviously).  But all I did
> was observe -- like Robin -- that the events described were cool
> (calque and thus not really approved, but it was a short joke).

Wow.  I'm so used to the literalism of Lojban that, as usual, the
joke never occured to me.

-Robin

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