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[lojban] Re: ziryroi ?



On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Chain-Different-Languages-Juliana-Spahr/dp/0966630300
> says that Helsem wrote ziryroi, the first book in Lojban.  I've
> never seen ziryroi; how long is it?

It's 23 letter-size pages, including the covers.

It's a poetry book. It contains poems in Lojban with English
translation/glosses. "ziryroi" originally meant "purple-rock" because
it was written before the Great Rafsi Shift. Now it means "a purple
number of times".  I got a copy from lojbab on my first logfest ui.

This is the first poem:

<<

lu le puzi cerni vau li'u tcita levi pemci po'u tu'e

.oi lemi pamoi
ckavelylafti stapa
pu jalra catra

tu'u zi'e poi selgicfanva fi de'e .i zoi .zy.

       "This moning"

(Complaint!) my first
lifting-out-of-bed step
was a cockroach killer.

(haiku)          9-27-89 revised 4-19-91    .zy. vau

>>

mu'o mi' xorxes


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