[lojban] Re: Penguicon Lojban Presentation

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

--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
Gee, I can't even claim this as a fancy
metaphorical lujvo; {cma} has been used
consistently as a diminutive and/or lessening
prefix since the get-go.