Re: [lojban] Alice essay

[".arpis." <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com>]

Why is it translated that way? Shouldn't it be {lo mlatu pe la tcecir}?

That's more of a mouthful, this is a stylistic choice, and it's a cute play on words; it also loses little since the idiom that may have sparked the name is long dead and wouldn't have translated into lojban anyway.

 

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mu'o mi'e .arpis.

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