From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Thu Oct 19 14:32:15 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 19 Oct 2000 21:32:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 12177 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2000 21:32:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 Oct 2000 21:32:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 19 Oct 2000 21:32:14 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22186; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:35:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200010192135.RAA22186@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: jboverba In-Reply-To: Message from pycyn@aol.com of "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:16:10 EDT." Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:35:00 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell pycyn@aol.com writes: >n a message dated 00-10-19 12:14:05 EDT, robin-the-canuck writes, re pier: > ><< >What do you call a native speaker of Lojban once he grows up? > > Why do I get the feeling this is the lead-in to a joke? >> > >Because it is one of the classic forms of really-bad-pun lead-ins. Here I >suspect it is an indirect way of asking what is the Lojban word for adults, >since the immature form is given in the title. > >(Robin-the-Canuck, so-called to avoid confusion with Robin-the-Turk, suggests >that the names fit about equally well, neither is either, despite email >addresses.) Actually, given how confusing _I_ find posts from Robin-the-Turk, (I keep thinking I wrote them and trying to remember said event), feel free to use Robin-the-Canuck as a seperator. :) -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Despite not getting very emotional about it, the fact that quantum entanglement doesn't allow transmission of information is probably the most profound dissapointment I've ever experienced. -- RLPowell