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Re: [lojban] Re: A marginally humorous event



I fail to see where the humourous event is, and I disagree with Jed.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jed <jednewaccount@yahoo.com> wrote:
I think you should treat it as a cmene by adding a consonant at the
end.

On Sep 27, 2:30 am, "fagricipni" <lojban...@fagricipni.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if I am putting this in the right place; perhaps
> Lojban beginners would be a better place.  Just tell me if I
> made a mistake about where to place this.
>
> I just did something that I find really interesting in one of
> the documents that I am currently creating to be posted on my
> web site.  I, having had described all of the morphological
> rules, that cmevla must follow, then mentioned that one could
> also use a valid selbri as a cmene.  I brought up the fact that
> Native Americans are the most well known example of people
> doing this in natural languages, using "Walking Bear" as an
> example (a reference to the episode "How Sharper Than a
> Serpent's Tooth" of the Star Trek: The Animated Series), and
> then noticed and pointed out that that could easily be
> translated in to Lojban "la cadzu cribe".
>
> Also, for those who think that I should not be writing about
> things that are already covered, I'd have to say that I am
> writing these things primarily to improve my comprehension of
> things.  First, it helps to take the concept explained in one
> way, and rewrite them in a way that seems more natural
> *for me*.  Secondly; less importantly, I think; that just
> having to think about them well enough to compose a document
> about them might, perhaps, help improve the memory of them by
> what amounts to simple review.  I post them on the web because
> I that that someone else *might* find my writings useful.

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