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[lojban] Re: emotions



At 09:22 AM 5/27/03 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
>Okay. Nick & Lojban say that any deviation from the prescription
>is bad per se. I say that deviation is bad in proportion to the
>adverse consequences it has (in terms of causing us to not speak
>the same language). There's not much more to be said about that.
>
>(I agree with xorxes that ironically the discussedness of
>experimentals means that they stick in the memory better than
>many official words. For instance, I have no idea what the
>official word for 'fungus' is,

mledi, which is memorable for the initial, and quite mnemonic with "mold".


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