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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:58:54PM -0600, Jay Kominek wrote:
> <imo>The two phrases are broken English. You cannot convey the same
> meaning in grammatical Lojban, because the nongrammaticity of the English
> is the whole point. I mean, you are laughing at the poor Japanese->English
> translator who produced the sentence, right? (I don't see anything else
> funny about the sentences.)</imo>

True.  Very true.

But you could recreat them with _un_gramattical lojban.  8)

Hey, Jay, how's the dictionary coming?

-Robin

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