Subject: [lojban] Re: spopa

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:46:31 -0500 (EST)

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> Why would you hesitate to correct it to pacna?

The whole point is that John's grasp of Lojban is perilously weak. If you
are translating a Russian novel in which one of the characters speaks with
a marked German accent, you would represent his dialogue as German-flavored
English. You wouldn't just wash the accent away.

-- 
John Cowan <[email-masked]> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_