From phma@oltronics.net Sun Jun 11 04:40:46 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3108 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2000 11:40:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Jun 2000 11:40:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2000 11:40:45 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA15416 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 07:40:42 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.19, neofelis, , 207.15.133.19 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 07:40:42(EDT) on June 11, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Jokes was Bootlegger Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:39:30 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0006110046280F.00838@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 00-06-10 12:16:00 EDT, aulun writes: > ><< I wonder if jokes can be told in Lojban (very often ambiguity is > essential for them - try to *explain* it and it's over...) or > irony can be conveyed. >> > >Yes. We have had some specimens lately (I can't remember the references, >though). But no one is really good at it yet. There's a transcript of a cartoon (anyone know where the cartoon is?) with a joke based on an ambiguous tanru. Look for "malskami" and you'll find it. As to my "spati temci" joke, that's an English pun in translation. phma