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

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

The problem of figuring out the outer limits of a team (collective 
achievements).  I live in St. Louis, where "We won" has been screaming since 
whenever it was last week.




----- Original Message ----
From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, November 1, 2011 4:23:51 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] a fourth "we" in English?

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.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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