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Re: On international applications of Lojban



"Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" wrote:

>  What is the attitudinal for Khrushchev's shoe banging, I wonder?)

`She's all right again now,' said the Red Queen.  `Do you know
Languages?  What's the French for fiddle-de-dee?'

`Fiddle-de-dee's not English,' Alice replied gravely.

`Who ever said it was?' said the Red Queen.

Alice thought she saw a way out of the difficulty this time.
`If you'll tell me what language "fiddle-de-dee" is, I'll tell
you the French for it!' she exclaimed triumphantly.

But the Red Queen drew herself up rather stiffly, and said
`Queens never make bargains.'

> I realize and appreciate that.  At one time, you were our pet
> iconoclast.  Now you write Lojban.

Grave Lojban, actually.  zo`o.

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