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[lojban] Re: Penguicon Lojban Presentation



On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:07:32PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> 
> --- 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.

*blink*

Is that relevant?

I was talking about "cool" meaning "good".

-Robin

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