From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Thu Jun 15 03:34:26 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14909 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2000 10:34:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Jun 2000 10:34:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mq.egroups.com) (10.1.1.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Jun 2000 10:34:24 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.111] by mq.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 Jun 2000 10:34:18 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:34:17 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: Hello from a newbie! Message-ID: <8iabf9+ps29@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <0006150053440B.01046@neofelis> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1025 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" --- In lojban@egroups.com, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >With luck I'll fair better with lojban than I did with German. :-) > > Vier f=FCnfmal vervierfacht macht mehr als f=FCnf viermal verf=FCnffacht. Li vo te'a > mu pi'i vo zmadu li mu te'a vo pi'i mu. Oh boy, oh boy! Where did you pick up all *that* German!!! Although totally correct (I never heard that before) your teachers really must have - successfully - tried to chase their students away from *that* language! I guess they never had read real and beautiful German (in fine prose or - unforgettable - poetry). It's still worse than my first fossile Romanian text book with phrases all like: "Tatãl taie pâinea si spune rugãciunea..." (The father cuts the bread and speaks the prayer)... (BTW, just now, I'm re-reading Franz Werfel's delicious little prose "Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift" (about: a pale-blue woman's handwriting) Although accustomed to mostly dealing with pretty profane texts, I'm excited!) co'o mi'e .aulun.