Subject: [lojban] Re: spopa

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:25:50 -0500

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 13:46, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.

.i fau lenu fanva fi le dotco kei, cu fanva tetai ma?

mu'omi'e pier.