Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'

[Nick NICHOLAS <nicholas@uci.edu>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote:

> Nick NICHOLAS scripsit:

> > I think lambda calculus is the bomb, and wonderful, and it would
> > be great to use it in the metalanguage of Lojban.

> English dialect alert (though the context carries it here)!

> In North America, "bomb" means figuratively a catastrophic failure,
> rather than a great success.

.i mi pu li'a .ei pilno zoigy. da bomb gy. (ne le'e friko merko bangu
ge'u)
.enai zoigy. the bomb gy.

mi'e nitcion -- noi spuda bau la lojban mu'i lenu vecu'u le bangrtlingana
mriste; lei cusku na curmi
lenu da tavla fi lo na steci be le bangrtlingana na'ebo le bangrtlingana

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Nick Nicholas, Breathing  {le'o ko na rivbi fi'inai palci je tolvri danlu}
nicholas@uci.edu                   -- Miguel Cervantes tr. Jorge LLambias