Re: [lojban] a fourth "we" in English?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 01 November 2011 17:23:51 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 November 2011 12:45:11 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >> lu mi'o plixa li'u se cusku lo sfani lo bakni
> >
> > mi smadi lodu'u di'u xelfanva lo rimni .iku'i mi na facki
>
> It seems there are many versions. The one I knew is "aramos dijo el
> mosquito, al buey que partía el terrón", but I found one in English:
> "And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox" from Longfellow:
> http://quotes.dictionary.com/And_so_we_plough_along_as_the_fly
> It says it's from "Chispa, in The Spanish Student, act 3, sc. 6
> (1840)" so I wonder if Longfellow got it from Spanish.

I guessed it was something like "Together we plow, said the fly to the cow".

Pierre
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