From thinkit8@lycos.com Sun Oct 07 21:31:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 8 Oct 2001 04:31:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 84867 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2001 04:31:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Oct 2001 04:31:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n13.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.10.91) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Oct 2001 04:31:42 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.2.207] by n13.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Oct 2001 04:31:42 -0000 Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 04:31:41 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: broken phone Message-ID: <9pra7d+b3dl@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1617 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.4.255.70 From: thinkit8@lycos.com --- In lojban@y..., Invent Yourself wrote: > 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. mi fanva di'u le jbobau le glibau lu: a.osai no da troci le nu ralte le ni valsi poi ke'a steci lo bangu zi'e poi ke'a claxu lo smuni mi fanva di'u le glibau le jbobau zoi gy. hoping but not praying that no thingy try the event of retainig the word count which is specific to a language and also lacks any meaning. > > > -- > 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.