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From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>



>Unfortunately, "Logical Language", of
>which "Lojban" is a contraction, translates to /la langue logique/,
>/langue/ being the french word for "language" or "tongue".

It's masculine, like l'Esperanto, la langue internationale.
You're lucky that in French "Lojban" is pronounceable. In Spanish
it isn't.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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