Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Michael Everson
<michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
[the Mouse's tale]
>
> Actually the rhyme does give an audible clue:

The translation preserves the meter and rhyme too.

> "Fury said to the mouse
> That he met in the house,
> 'Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you—
>
> Come I'll take no denial:
> We must have the trial;
> For really this morning I've nothing to do.'
>
> Said the mouse to the cur,
> 'Such a trial, dear sir,
> With no jury or judge would be wasting our breath.'"
>
> (Imagine each of those as a left-facing mouse with a long tail trailing behind. Cf p. 35 in The Annotated Alice.)

Then why is it presented in a tail form for? The visual presentation
is not one of three left-facing mice, it is one mouse tail.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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