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Re: Lojban Mad-libs?
- Subject: Re: Lojban Mad-libs?
- From: Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:49:45 +0300
la lojbab. cusku di'e
> From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@lojban.org>
>
> Some has just suggested to me that Lojban writers could write "mad-libs" in
> Lojban. These are stories in which selected words are omitted, but
> labelled with a part of speech or other indicator as to what needs to be
> filled in. Someone else then supplies words of the indicated part of
> speech and the resulting story is read, random-sounding and usually funny.
>
.a'u pe'u ko cusku lo tordu mupli
{fu'e zo'o} that's {lo} in the sense of something-that-really-is. I am not
inferring that there exists a short example such that I am asking you to express
it {fu'o}
co'o mi'e robin.