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Re: [lojban] Not a troll, just a silly post [Was Re: Enemy & Re: No number base]



On Wed, 30 May 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>> And nice wordplay it is too!  However, there is still no way to
>> translate "All your base are belong to us" into Lojban while
>> preserving the original nuances.
>
>That's because its nuances are about the fact that English has a
>required plural/singular distinction.

Well, Lojban has a required individual/mass/set distinction, so we could try
using that instead: ro lo'i do <base> se ponse li mi'o, or some such silliness.
On top of that, "base" is ambiguous: is it tersaclu, jilka, terdugri, zbepi, or
jicmu?

phma