From rob@twcny.rr.com Mon Sep 25 14:10:07 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_2); 25 Sep 2000 21:10:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 9145 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2000 21:10:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Sep 2000 21:10:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.81) by mta2 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2000 21:10:06 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29850 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:06:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.24.9.71]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:43:35 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13df9a-0004L2-00; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:47:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:47:10 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Get Much Ca$h ! Message-ID: <20000925164710.A16655@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <200009250908.FAA16473@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200009250908.FAA16473@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>; from rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 05:08:04AM -0400 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 05:08:04AM -0400, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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 The word 'malglico' means 'derogatively English', referring to a phrase in Lojban that seems to have been translated directly from an English idiomatic phrase. 'malspano', similarly, would mean 'derogatively Spanish'. -- la rabspir.