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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Get Much Ca$h ! 
In-Reply-To: Message from "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" <Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de> of "Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:21:20 -0000." <8qivrg+1tk5@eGroups.com> 
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 05:08:04 -0400
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"=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" writes:
>--- In lojban@egroups.com, "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@h...> wrote:
>
>> i ie jetnu i ku'i lo'e pikci na cuxna i le fazrai je tolci'irai
>> jboselsku cu xagmau le nomei
>
>.i.u'i.u'e xu lu lo'e pikci na cuxna li'u goi ke'a cu malspano

[Hmm. jbofi'e says ke'a is it-4, but the cmavo file says it's the
relativized it.]

Umm, I read that sentence as "Is it true that that sentence is fucking
Spanish?". While I can't imagine what the mal is there for, besides
random racial slurring, which seems unlikely, I should point out that
there is an equivalent English expression, "Beggars can't be chosers".

-Robin

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