Re: [lojban] RE: Rabbity Sand-Laugher

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

pycyn@aol.com scripsit:

> I want to make it clear that I think finding that phrase was remarkably 
> clever.  It can't be easy to find that close a match in a language which is 
> designed to be uniquely decomposable.  I deserves some kind of medal.  

I think the context makes it clear that this was intended to be "It deserves"
rather than "I deserve", as some people have interpreted it.

> What about Oz or Willows [...]  or Pooh [...].  Or [...] Tintin [...]
> Or finish the Bible [...].  Or [...] David Copperfield [...]
> or The Catcher in the Rye  [...].

Unfortunately, *all* of this is still in copyright except for David Copperfield
and the Bible, even if the latter were not in Hebrew and Greek.
I suppose some Oz books must have fallen into the public domain by now, though.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter