[lojban] Re: Penguicon Lojban Presentation

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

"cmalenku" doesn't mean "cool" it means something like "small cold
thing".  "cool" would normally be "mlilenku".

-Robin

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:12:42AM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> I understand the humor, but I also understand how Robin would be
> confused wondering what was cold about my presentation. {cma} had
> nothing to do with your joke. Or are you still joking?
>
> -Matt
> 
> clifford-j@sbcglobal.net 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.
> >
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