From xod@sixgirls.org Sun Oct 07 20:52:01 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 8 Oct 2001 03:52:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 37604 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2001 03:52:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Oct 2001 03:52:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Oct 2001 03:52:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f983pxs22123 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:51:58 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] broken phone In-Reply-To: <20011006150601.A540@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Rob Speer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:14:18PM +0200, G. Dyke wrote: > > Coi rodo > > > > For those of you who participated (and those who didn't) here is the broken > > phone chain (At last ! Sorry but I was away all week and didn't expect it to > > be all over 24 hours after And received Pierre's translation). I did my > > translation trying to keep the word-order as close to the original as > > possible. I also created lujvo to replace single words and tanru for the > > others. (You may notice that I follow the model set by Don in '96 for the > > compiling of all this). I apologize for the length of this mail. > > I think trying to preserve word order and the number of words actually caused > some of the confusion. I surely hope nobody tried to maintain such a language-specific and meaningless aspect like word number. -- It's said that Mullah Omar has met two non-Muslims in his life. Others say even that's not true. Sami ul-Haq, Osama bin Laden's closest friend in Pakistan, runs the "University for the Education of Truth," a fundamentalist institution that educated and trained nine out of the Taliban's top 10 leaders.