[lojban] Re: this sentence struck me funny

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

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:01:51PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I'm looking on the Web for anything about rituals involving the
> jatob? tree (which in Lojban I call {kurbarile}, from the species
> name) and found a page with this sentence:
> 
> ...a l?ngua dos Enawen? Naw? ? parecida com a l?ngua falada pelos Pareci.
> 
> I took "parecida" as the Portuguese word (it means "similar" or
> "appeared"), then noticed the similarity to the people named at
> the end, then thought {123 da} and extended the last word to
> {parecivomu}. :)

Heh heh heh.

-Robin

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