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Re: [lojban] RE: jboverba



pycyn@aol.com writes:
>n a message dated 00-10-19 12:14:05 EDT, robin-the-canuck writes, re pier:
>
><< >What do you call a native speaker of Lojban once he grows up?
> 
> Why do I get the feeling this is the lead-in to a joke? >>
>
>Because it is one of the classic forms of really-bad-pun lead-ins.  Here I 
>suspect it is an indirect way of asking what is the Lojban word for adults, 
>since the immature form is given in the title.
>
>(Robin-the-Canuck, so-called to avoid confusion with Robin-the-Turk, suggests 
>that the names fit about equally well, neither is either, despite email 
>addresses.)

Actually, given how confusing _I_ find posts from Robin-the-Turk, (I
keep thinking I wrote them and trying to remember said event), feel free
to use Robin-the-Canuck as a seperator.  :)

-Robin

-- 
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Despite not getting very emotional about it, the fact that quantum
entanglement doesn't allow transmission of information is probably the
most profound dissapointment I've ever experienced.  -- RLPowell